suggests that under the private education system, income inequality is inversely associated with social mobility, and the … steady-state average talent of skilled workers declines as people make greater educational investments on their children …. Consequently, both intergenerational mobility and income inequality increase, and social welfare may improve under reasonable …

threshold students may make use of additional resources, such as private tutoring. We investigate how the use of private … successfully pass through this school, controlling for the students competencies after tutoring, but before the transition. Using … PISA and linked register data from Switzerland, we find that students who had private tutoring before the transition are …

income. -- Higher education ; funding regimes ; human capital ; welfare …

, since SBTC raises the direct distributional benefits of income taxes, which more than offset their larger indirect …