TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Diaz-Serrano, Luis
AU  - Pérez, Jessica
        TI  - Do More Educated Leaders Raise Citizens' Education?
        PY  - 2013/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7661
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp7661
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - political leaders
KW  - primary education
KW  - school achievement
KW  - political institutions
        ER  -