How does the public provision of education and the deployment of distortionary tax and subsidy instruments differ when … also show how the provision of public education depends on how private education choices respond, especially the …

public provision of education for equalisation of opportunities rather than income taxation, which only equalizes incomes. We … develop a framework in which the tax and education provision rules in the welfarist and non-welfarist/equality of opportunity … cases can be transparently compared. We show that in addition to education policies, progressive taxation also plays a role …

tools of economics to assess the outcome of efforts to solve education’s equal opportunity problem in a range of countries … between education and parental income, the problematic past research on peer effects, tracking, the distribution of …