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Good or Bad? Short- versus Long-Term Effects of Multigrading on Child Achievement

Barbetta, Gian Paolo; Chuard-Keller, Patrick; Sorrenti, … - 2022

This paper studies the effect of multigrading-mixing children of different ages in the same classroom-on students' short- versus long-term academic achievement in Italy. We cope with the endogeneity of multigrading (and class size) through an instrumental variable identification strategy based...

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Tax Liability Side Equivalence in Gift-Exchange Labor Markets

Riedl, Arno; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2003

Tax Liability Side Equivalence (tax LSE) claims that the statutory incidence of a tax is irrelevant for its economic incidence. In gift-exchange labor markets, firms provide a gift to workers by paying high wages, and workers reciprocate by providing high efforts. Tax LSE is theoretically...

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Car User Taxes, Quality Characteristics and Fuel Efficiency: Household Behavior and Market Adjustment

de Borger, Bruno; Rouwendal, Jan - 2012

We study the impact of fuel taxes and kilometer taxes on households' choices of vehicle quality, on their demand for kilometers driven, and on fuel consumption. Moreover, embedding this information in a model of the car market, we analyze the implications of these taxes for the opportunity costs...

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The Non-Equivalence of Labor Market Taxes: A Real-Effort Experiment

Weber, Matthias; Schram, Arthur - 2013

In a competitive market with taxed transactions, it does not matter under full rationality which side of the market legally transfers the taxes. In the labor market, a tax levied on employers and a corresponding income tax levied on employees are equivalent. With boundedly rational agents, this...

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The Global Macroeconomics of a Trade War: The EAGLE model on the US-China trade conflict

Bolt, Wilko; Mavromatis, Kostas; van Wijnbergen, Sweder - 2019

We study the global macroeconomic effects of tariffs using a multiregional, general equilibrium model, EAGLE, that we extend by introducing US tariffs against Chinese imports into the US, and subsequently Chinese tariffs against US imports into China, consistent with recent trade policies by the...

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Monopsony power, income taxation and welfare

Hummel, Albert Jan - 2021

This paper studies the implications of monopsony power for optimal income taxation and welfare. Firms observe workers' abilities while the government does not and monopsony power determines what share of the labor market surplus is translated into profits. Monopsony power increases the tax...

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When a Price is Enough: Implementation in Optimal Tax Design

Renes, Sander; Zoutman, Floris T. - 2014

This paper studies the design of tax systems that implement a planner's second-best allocation in a market economy. An example shows that the widely used Mirrleesian (1976) tax system cannot implement all incentive-compatible allocations. Hammond's (1979) "principle of taxation" proves that any...

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Human Capital and Cross-Country Comparison of Inequality

Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zilcha, Itzhak - 2002

withrespect to parental human capital and wealth; (2) intergenerational transfers takeplace via parental education and, public … investments in education financed by taxes(possibly, with a level determined by majority voting); (3) due to investment inhuman … the production of human capi-tal, some attributed to 'home-education' and others related to 'public-education',and their …

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Are Education Subsidies an Efficient Redistributive Device?

Dur, Robert A.J.; Teulings, Coen N. - 2003

We argue that promoting education may be a means to reduceincome inequality. When workers of different skill levels … areimperfect substitutes in production, an increase in the level ofhuman capital in the economy reduces the return to education … atrade-off between the distortions of taxes on effort and the distortionsof education subsidies on the investment in human …

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Subsidizing Enjoyable Education

Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - 2005

College education is not only an investment; for many people it also generates consumption benefits. If these benefits … students, even when the colleges lack market power. Moreover, when the social return to education exceeds the private return …

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