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“Macroeconomic returns" to schooling: the effects of education on inflation

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BECCHETTI LEONARDO
DELLE CHIAIE SIMONA

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The link between education and in?ation is relatively unexplored in the economic literature. In our paper we provide four potential rationales for a positive effect of education on in?ation. First, education increases productivity of consumer search which, in turn, reduces in?ationary pressures. Second, in?ationary surprises with real effects are more likely to be realised against less educated economic agents. Third, consensus around severe antin?ationary policies may depend as well from the level of education. Fourth, more educated individuals are more likely to become net creditors and lobby for lower in?ation rates. Our GMM estimates of a panel VAR system on a sample of 92 countries do not reject this hypothesis showing that education Granger causes in?ation especially in low education, less developed countries.

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Paper provided by Tor Vergata University, CEIS in its series Departmental Working Papers with number 265.

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