TRADE AND DIVERGENCE IN EDUCATION SYSTEMS
提出一个理论，研究教育政策的内生选择以及贸易与教育体系之间的双向因果关系。两国在贸易中策略性地选择教育体系，导致其分化程度大于自给自足时，但小于全球社会最优水平。
This article presents a theory on the endogenous choice of education policy and the two-way causal relationship between trade and education systems. A country’s education system determines its talent distribution and comparative advantage; the possibility of trade by raising the returns to the sector of comparative advantage in turn induces countries to further differentiate their education systems and reinforces the initial pattern of comparative advantage. Specifically, the Nash equilibrium choice of education systems by two countries interacting strategically are necessarily more divergent than their autarky choices, and yet less than what is socially optimal for the world.