Holter, Hans A. - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 6 (2015) 2, pp. 385-428
I document a strong negative cross-country correlation between intergenerational earnings persistence and measures of … tax progressivity and level, and between intergenerational earnings persistence and public expenditure on tertiary … intergenerational earnings persistence in the United States. Taxation, through its impact on investments in human capital, can explain …