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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 … explore the design of policy. The model highlights the critical roles played by (i) the relationship between behavioural risk …
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We study the optimal taxation of risk-free and excess capital income with heterogeneous rates of return, alongside an … optimal nonlinear earnings tax. Households can hold three assets: one risk-free, one risky but diversifiable, and one a … private investment with idiosyncratic risk whose expected return differs among households. Contrary to expectations, the …
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demonstrated that a key feature of human capital investments is whether they increase or decrease wage risk. In a benchmark model …This paper considers how optimal education and tax policy depends on the risk properties of human capital. It is …
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more attractive for social insurance if a larger part of risk is realized in the first period of the life-cycle. Our …
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