Do more educated leaders raise citizens’ education?

Identificador:  PC:2219

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/PC2219

Autores:  Pérez, Jessica Helen; Díaz Serrano, Lluís

Resumen:
This paper looks at the contribution of political leaders to enhance citizens education and investigate how the educational attainment of the population is affected while a leader with higher education remains in office. For this purpose, we consider educational transitions of political leaders in office and find that the educational attainment of population increases when a more educated leader remains in office. Furthermore, we also observe that the educational attainment of the population is negatively impacted when a country transitions from an educated leader to a less educated one. This result may help to explain the previous finding that more educated political leaders favor economic growth. Key Words: Political leaders, Primary Education, School Achievement, Political institutions. JEL classification: I21,I25,I28.