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work a child does, are private information, the second-best policy uses a combination of need and merit based education …
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As credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given that intra-family transfers, and the way a child uses her time outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child labour below its efficient level (if positive), and...
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We study Pareto optimal tax and education policies when human capital upon labor market entry is endogenous and … individuals face wage uncertainty. Though optimal labor distortions are history-dependent, i.e. depend on income and education …-contingent loans. To take themodel to the (US) data, we simplify the model to a binary education decision (graduating from college or …
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education wedges in this setting analytically and numerically, using a calibrated example. We present ways to implement the … given out to agents during education. These repayment plans are contingent on loan size and income and capture the history … dependence of the labor wedges. Applying the model to US-data and a binary education decision (graduating from college or not) we …
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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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work a child does, are private information, the second-best policy uses a combination of need and merit based education … child labour. -- child labour ; education ; uncertainty ; moral hazard …
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approximate the second-best policy by incorporating these principles in some measure. -- child labour ; education ; uncertainty …
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As credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given that intra-family transfers, and the way a child uses her time outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child labour below its efficient level (if positive), and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126131
work a child does, are private information, the second-best policy uses a combination of need and merit based education …
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This paper uses a game-theoretic model to analyze the disincentive effects of low-tuition policies on student effort. The model of parent and student responses to tuition subsidies is then calibrated using information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and the High School and...
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