%0 Report
        %A Diaz-Serrano, Luis
%A Pérez, Jessica
        %T Do More Educated Leaders Raise Citizens' Education?
        %D 2013
        %8 2013 Sep
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 7661
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp7661
        %X 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.
        %K political leaders
%K primary education
%K school achievement
%K political institutions