@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp7661,
            	author={Diaz-Serrano, Luis and Pérez, Jessica},
            	title={Do More Educated Leaders Raise Citizens' Education?},
            	year={2013},
	month={Sep},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={7661},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp7661},
	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},
            }