Do More Educated Leaders Raise Citizens' Education?

Luis Diaz-Serrano () and Jessica Pérez-Reynosa

No 7661, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: political leaders; primary education; school achievement; political institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I25 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2013-09
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