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Public provision of private goods and nondistortionary marginal tax rates
Blomquist, Sören; Christiansen, Vidar; Micheletto, Luca - 2008
, elderly care, primary education and health care. We show that there is a gain in efficiency where public provision of such a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264362
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Public provision of private goods, tagging and optimal income taxation with heterogeneity in needs
Bastani, Spencer; Blomquist, Sören; Micheletto, Luca - 2010
Previous literature has shown that public provision of private goods can be a welfare-enhancing device in second-best settings where governments pursue redistributive goals. However, three issues have so far been neglected. First, the case for supplementing an optimal nonlinear income tax with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274955
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Globalization, redistribution, and the composition of public education expenditures
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2010
We analyze whether globalization affects the composition of public expenditures for education by integrating arguments … with increasing global integration, developing countries have strong incentives to shift public education expenditures … towards lower education. In industrialized countries, on the other hand, globalization has an ambiguous effect on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267052
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Political economics of higher education finance
Borck, Rainald; Wimbersky, Martin - 2009
We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with risk averse households who are heterogeneous in income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271868
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The political economics of higher education finance for mobile individuals
Borck, Rainald; Uebelmesser, Silke; Wimbersky, Martin - 2012
We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with two regions and two separated labor markets … subsidize higher education costs or whether to rely on tuition fees only. We find that in equilibrium, in both regions a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283585
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Public-private partnership and schooling outcomes across countries
Woessmann, Ludger - 2006
The paper provides a comparative analysis of the association between student achievement and public-private partnerships (PPPs) in schooling across countries. Student-level data from the PISA international achievement test provides information on the public-private character of both operation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261413
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On the Political Economy of Social Security and Public Education
Poutvaara, Panu - 2001
This paper proposes and analyzes a model of a "European economy" with three overlapping generations, redistributive social security, and public universities without tuition. Individuals differ ex ante. The effect of wage tax rate on occupational choice and the voting equilibrium of wage tax rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315224
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Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Wößmann, Ludger - 2018
strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931942
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Uncovering Gatsby Curves
St-Amant, Pier-André Bouchard; Garon, Jean-Denis; … - 2020
: What are Gatsby curves? When do they exist? We build a theoretical environment in which parental investment and education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179848
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Optimal Redistribution in the Presence of Signaling
Bastani, Spencer; Blumkin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - 2021
We analyze optimal redistribution in the presence of labor market signaling where innate productive ability is not only unobserved by the government, but also by prospective employers. Signaling in both one and two dimensions is considered, where in the latter case firms have an informational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012657916