Annika Lindskog: Inheritance and education | Human capital and growth

When making policy changes that affect education, we should not immediately think that less education is automatically bad. In this video Annika Lindskog from the University of Gothenburg discusses how a land certification programme in Ethiopia controversially increased school enrollment but also decreased oldest sons' incentives to do well in school at the same time. Despite the negative impact, Lindskog posits it is crucial to look at the bigger picture and consider the programme’s impact...