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The Political Economy of Post-Compulsory Education Policy with Endogenous Credit Constraints
Anderberg, Dan - 2008
Altruistic parents, who differ in income, make financial transfers to their children, who differ in ability. The … two policy tools: a subsidy to those who participate in education and a proportional income tax. Not all children … participate; a larger subsidy encourages participation, and a larger income tax discourages it. The parents, prior to making …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771859
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Why are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions?
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2012
Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 2000-2006 and merge this information with a unique proxy for region-pair-specific cultural distances...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100274
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The Effect of Child Care on Family Structure : Theory and Evidence
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2012
children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108093
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Taxes, Status Goods, and Piracy
Balestrino, Alessandro - CESifo - 2012
This paper studies the design of indirect redistributive taxation and of corrective taxation, as well as the formation of equilibrium indirect tax policies via a political process, in the presence of status goods, allowing for the possibility that illegal copies of those goods may be purchased...
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