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Demographic Change and Public Education Spending: A Conflict between Young and Old?

Grob, Ueli; Wolter, Stefan C. - CESifo - 2005

Demographic change in industrial countries will influence educational spending in potentially two ways. On the one hand, the decline in the number of school-age children should alleviate the financial pressure. On the other hand, the theoretical/empirical literature has established that the...

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Are the Elderly a Threat to Educational Expenditures?

Cattaneo, Alejandra; Wolter, Stefan C. - CESifo - 2007

Empirical research has given cause to fear that the demographic ageing in industrialized countries is likely to exert a negative impact on educational spending. These papers have linked the share of the elderly with the per capita or per pupil spending on education at the local, state-wide or...

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Equity as a Prerequisite for Stable Cooperation in a Public-Good Economy - The Core Revisited

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Peters, Wolfgang - CESifo - 2010

. Distributional equity of the individual burdens of public-good contribution is assessed by a specific sacrifice measure (the “Moulin …

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Tax Base Erosion and Inequity from Michigan's Assessment Growth Limit: The Case of Detroit

Hodge, Timothy R.; Skidmore, Mark; Sands, Gary; … - CESifo - 2013

In this paper we examine the degree to which Michigan’s property value assessment growth cap has eroded the tax base and created substantial differences in effective tax rates among residential properties within the City of Detroit. While the analysis focuses on a specific city with...

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Equitable Representation in the Councils of the United Nations: Theory and Application

Gould, Matthew; Rablen, Matthew - CESifo - 2013

We develop a theoretical framework for equity in council voting games (CVGs). In a CVG, a fully representative voting …). Three equity concepts are proposed: ex-ante (procedural) equity, ex-post (outcome) equity and regional equity. The last two …

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Justifying the Lindahl Solution as an Outcome of Fair Cooperation

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Peters, Wolfgang - CESifo - 2005

equity axioms that in particular are related to the equal sacrifice principle and a non-envy postulate as norms for … distributional equity. Fairness among agents with different preferences is taken into account by considering their marginal …

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Analyzing a Flat Income Tax in the Netherlands

Mooij, Ruud A. De; Jacobs, Bas; Folmer, Kees - CESifo - 2007

A flat tax rate on income has gained popularity in European countries. This paper assesses the attractiveness of such a flat tax in achieving redistributive objectives with the least cost to labour market performance. We do so by using a detailed applied general equilibrium model for the...

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Efficiency and Equity of European Education and Training Policies

Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2006

to advance both efficiency and equity. Returns to educational investments tend to decrease over the life cycle. Moreover … life cycle. This creates complementarities between efficiency and equity at early stages and trade-offs at late stages. The … paper goes on to discuss specific policies for efficiency and equity at each educational stage, ranging from early childhood …

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Theory of the Avatar

Castronova, Edward - CESifo - 2003

increase aggregate human well-being, while decreasing its cross-sectional variance. These efficiency and equity effects are …

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Reform of the United Nations Security Council: Equity and Efficiency

Gould, Matthew; Rablen, Matthew D. - CESifo - 2014

status quo against our measures of equity and efficiency. Several proposals may actually worsen the issues they ostensibly …

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