On government-created credit markets for education and endogenous growth
Elena Del Rey and
Miguel-Angel Lopez-Garcia
Economic Modelling, 2020, vol. 92, issue C, 170-179
Abstract:
Interest in public loans to fund (higher) education has been increasing in the last decades. This paper explores the general welfare properties of government-created credit markets for education in a three-period overlapping generations model with physical and human capital. It shows that the mere existence of public credit markets is second-best in nature, and cannot decentralize the optimum. Achieving the first-best “Golden Rule” balanced growth path requires a government loan system that lends the amounts required for optimal investments in education and an optimally chosen pure pay-as-you-go social security system. Student loans and pensions thus appear as two inseparable elements of the policy that maximizes social welfare.
Keywords: Endogenous growth; Human capital; Intergenerational transfers; Public policy; Credit markets for education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D90 H21 H52 H55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2019.12.016
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