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Why Birthright Citizenship Matters for Immigrant Children : Impacts on Parental Educational Choices

Felfe, Christina - 2016

Immigrant children often face educational disadvantages that stem from their parents' decision-making. For example, in … many immigrant-receiving countries, immigrants are less likely than the native-born to enroll their children in preschool … children with similar educational opportunities as children in native families. This paper examines whether the introduction of …

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Education : Optimal Choice and Efficient Policy

Richter, Wolfram F. - 2015

The research on earnings determination is based on the Mincer-Becker assumption that individuals decide on schooling by maximizing income. This paper offers an alternative and less restrictive approach based on utility maximization. Using this approach, we analyze the efficiency of education...

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Granting Birthright Citizenship - A Door Opener for Immigrant Children's Educational Participation and Success?

Felfe, Christina - 2014

Does granting birthright citizenship help immigrant children integrating in the host country's educational system? We … address this question using a reform of the German naturalization law in 1999 that entitled children born after January 1 …, 2000 with birthright citizenship. We use a difference-in-difference design that compares children born shortly before and …

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Efficient Subsidization of Human Capital Accumulation with Overlapping Generations and Endogenous Growth

Richter, Wolfram F. - 2010

This paper studies second best policies for education, saving, and labour in an OLG model in which endogenous growth results from human capital accumulation. Government expenditures have to be financed by linear instruments so that growth equilibria are inefficient. The inefficiency is...

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Taxing Human Capital Efficiently When Qualified Labour is Mobile

Richter, Wolfram F.; Kunze, Lars - 2021

The paper studies the effect that skilled labour mobility has on efficient education policy. The model is one of two periods in which a representative taxpayer decides on labour, education, and saving. The government can only use linear tax and subsidy instruments. It is shown that the mobility...

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Efficient Education Policy - A Second-Order Elasticity Rule

Richter, Wolfram F. - 2021

Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, efficient education policy is characterized for a Ramsey-like scenario in which the government is constrained to use linear instruments. It is shown that education should be effectively subsidized if, and only...

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Taxing Education in Ramsey's Tradition

Richter, Wolfram F. - 2021

Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, it is shown to be second-best efficient to deviate from Ramsey's Rule and to distort qualified labour less than nonqualified labour. The result holds for arbitrary utility and learning functions. Efficient...

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Efficient Tax Policy Ranks Education Higher than Saving

Richter, Wolfram F. - 2021

Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, it is shown to be second-best efficient not to distort the choice of education. In general this implies distorting the saving decision. Hence a strict order of policy priority is derived. Efficient tax policy...

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