This paper intends to make a two-fold contribution to the literature. First, it studies a political economy model of family taxation using a household economics approach to behaviour; the nature of the winning policy is found to depend on whether i) the parents control their fertility or not,...

We examine the effects of differences in social capital on first and second best transfers to families with children, in an asymmetric information context where the number of births, and the future earning capacity of each child that is born, are random variables. The probability that a couple...

We examine the effects of differences in social capital on first and second best transfers to families with children, in an asymmetric information context where the number of births, and the future earning capacity of each child that is born, are random variables. The probability that a couple...

Chapter 1. Standard optimal taxation with single agents: what it is and what to use in its place -- Chapter 2. Optimal taxation in the presence of household production -- Chapter 3. Income taxation with two-person households -- Chapter 4. Income taxation and public spending with two-person...