Search Results - subject:"education subsidies"

Federation's alternative tax constitutions and risky education

Poutvaara, Panu - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999

We analyze a two-period modell where risk-averse students divide their time between risky education, leisure, and work. The educated can migrate. Wagetax financed transfer to students acts as an insurance, and increases both investment in education and demand for leisure. We drive sufficient...

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A Review of Human Capital Theory: Microeconomics

Fleischhauer, Kai-Joseph - School of Economics and Political Science, Universität … - 2007

analyze the effects of taxation and education subsidies on the formation of human capital. …

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Education For All: A Welfare-Improving Course for Africa?

Caucutt, Elisabeth; Kumar, Krishna B. - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 10 (2007) 2, pp. 294-326

In this paper, we argue that the case for universal compulsory education for sub-Saharan Africa might have been overstated. We capture the African situation through a heterogeneous-agent model, in which high costs of education relative to income and the skill premium cause the economy to...

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Capital-Market Failure, Adverse Selection, and Equity Financing of Higher Education

Jacobs, Bas; Wijnbergen, Sweder J. G. van - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 63 (2007) 1, pp. 1-32

when private markets fail due to adverse selection. We show that education subsidies to restore market inefficiencies are …

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Educational Attainment and Child Labor: Do Subsidies Work?

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Roy, Abhra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We analyze the role of education subsidies in affecting child labor where a family chooses the quantity of children … educational policy to reduce the incidence of child labor. We find that education subsidies may increase (or reduce) the …

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The Pitfalls of Regional Education Policy

Südekum, Jens - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 61 (2005) 3, pp. 327-327

We analyze whether education subsidies to students in poor areas are an effective tool of regional policy. We show that … mobility increases with the personal skill level. Education subsidies induce individuals to invest more heavily in human … the periphery. Education subsidies are a more promising policy instrument the lower is labor mobility and the better is …

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Human Capital and Optimal Positive Taxation of Capital Income

Bovenberg, A Lans; Jacobs, Bas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper analyzes optimal linear taxes on capital and labour incomes in a life-cycle model of human capital investment, financial savings, and labour supply with heterogenous individuals. A dual income tax with a positive marginal tax rate on not only labour income but also capital income is...

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Subsidios de Educación: Impacto en la Migración y Convergencia Regional.

Duran, Gonzalo - EconWPA - 2005

explanation, are the education subsidies, those act like an anchor element. The subject is covered using an enlarged specification …

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Guide to Reform of Higher Education: A European Perspective

Jacobs, Bas; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Although there are exceptions, most European universities and institutions of higher education find it difficult to compete with the best universities in the Anglo-Saxon world. Despite the Bologna agreement and the ambitions of the Lisbon agenda, European universities are in need of fundamental...

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Education and Health Expenditures in Bangladesh

Glinskaya, Elena - In: Journal of Developing Societies 21 (2005) 1-2, pp. 91-120

Data from the 2000 Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES), together with expenditure data from the Ministries of Education and Health and Family Welfare, was used to analyze the distribution of GoB subsidies in these two sectors across poor and nonpoor. The analysis revealed that only...

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