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Education, disappointment and optimal policy
Anderberg, Dan; Cerrone, Claudia - 2014
Justification for policies to encourage investments in education, particularly for individuals at the lower end of the … potentially loss averse around their expected outcome make risky investments in education and we draw on optimal tax theory to … preferences, standard risk aversion and labour supply behaviour, (ii) the risk properties of education, and (iii) the degree of …
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Social exclusion and optimal redistribution
Aronsson, Thomas; Bastani, Spencer; Tayibov, Khayyam - 2021
redistributive taxation. Our results show how an optimal mix of education policy, public employment, and support to the unemployed …-best optimum most likely implies overprovision of education relative to a policy rule that balances the direct marginal benefit and …
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Age and health related inheritance taxation
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre - 2021
This paper studies the design of an optimal non linear inheritance taxation when individuals differ in wage as well as in their risks of both mortality and old-age dependance. We assume that the government cannot distinguish between bequests motives, that is whether bequests result from...
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Age-related taxation of bequests in the presence of a dependency risk
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre - 2020
This paper studies the design of the optimal linear taxation of bequests when individuals differ in wage as well as in their risks of both mortality and old-age dependence. We assume that the government cannot distinguish between bequests motives, that is whether bequests resulted from...
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Self-enforcing intergenerational social contract as a source of Pareto improvement and pollution mitigation
Nguyen Thang Dao; Burghaus, Kerstin; Edenhofer, Ottmar - 2016
We contribute to the literature on private financing of intergenerational public goods, focusing on climate change mitigation. We consider, in a general equilibrium overlapping generations (OLG) model with environmental externalities, a contract between successive generations, whereby agents of...
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Heterogeneous bequests and social inequalities
Borissov, Kirill; Bosi, Stefano; Thai Ha Huy; Pakhnin, … - 2023
We study a growth model with two types of agents who are heterogeneous in their degree of family altruism. We prove that every equilibrium path converges to a unique steady state, and study the effect of altruism on the properties of steady-state equilibrium. We show that aggregate income is...
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Opportunity and inequality across generations
Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2020
We analyze inequality and mobility across generations in a dynastic economy. Nurture, in terms of bequests and the schooling investment into the next generation, is observable but the draw of nature in terms of ability is hidden, stochastic and persistent across generations. We calibrate the...
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Social norms and welfare state dynamics
Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten; Weibull, Jörg - 2003
The paper analyses the interaction between economic incentives and work norms in the context of social insurance. If the work norm is endogenous in the sense that it is weaker when the population share of beneficiaries is higher, then voters will choose less generous bene.ts than otherwise. We...
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More giving or more givers? : the effects of tax incentives on charitable donations in the UK
Almunia, Miguel; Guceri, Irem; Lockwood, Ben; Scharf, … - 2019
This paper estimates the effects of tax incentives on charitable contributions in the UK, using the universe of self-assessment income tax returns between 2005 and 2013. We exploit variation from a large reform in 2010 to estimate intensive and extensive-margin tax-price elasticities of giving....
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Raising children to work hard : altruism, work norms and social insurance
Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten - 2001
Children who can count on support from altruistic parents may not try hard to succeed in the labor market. Moreover, parental altruism makes withdrawal of such support non-credible. To promote work effort, parents may want to instill norms which later cause their children to experience guilt or...
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