Education, Social Cohesion, and Economic Growth
分析教育对经济增长的双重作用：积累人力资本和促进共同文化，指出不同文化群体各自决定课程内容会导致过度极化和增长次优，最优路径是课程逐渐向中间收敛，但政治博弈可能阻碍这一过程。
Our analysis of the contribution of education to growth recognizes its dual role of building human capital and promoting a common culture. It indicates that when different cultural groups separately determine the cultural orientation of their school curricula this may result in excessive polarization and sub-optimal growth. The optimal trajectory involves a gradual, reciprocal convergence of school curricula towards the middle, but may be difficult to implement in a political context in which curricula are determined by legislative bargaining. Coercive centralization then results in overly rapid homogenization and may not be superior to a decentralized school system.