public schooling. We develop a theory which integrates private education and fertility decisions with voting on public … theory are consistent with state-level and micro data from the United States as well as cross-country evidence from the PISA …

Child labor is a persistent phenomenon in many developing countries. In recent years, support has been growing among … international labor standards, to reduce child labor in poor countries. In this paper, we discuss research on the long … domestic support for banning child labor within developing countries, and thus may contribute to the persistence of the child-labor …

Government-run entities are often more labor-intensive than private companies, even with identical production … firms. A tax-favored treatment of public production precludes production efficiency. It reduces welfare when labor supply is … constant. With an elastic labor supply, a wage tax advantage of the public sector may improve welfare if it allows for a higher …

We study the effects of revenue-neutral labor tax reforms in an imperfectly competitive domestic labor market under … negotiated wage rate, increase domestic labor demand and decrease international outsourcing. In the presence of wage tax … exemption, a lower payroll tax and a higher wage tax will increase domestic labor demand and decrease international outsourcing …

child labor in poor countries through measures such as product boycotts and the imposition of international labor standards …. The purported objective of such measures is to reduce the incidence of child labor in developing countries and thereby … show that these types of international action on child labor tend to lower domestic political support within developing …