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 …

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 …

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 …

more attractive for social insurance if a larger part of risk is realized in the first period of the life-cycle. Our …

We develop a model of education where individuals face educational risk. Successfully entering the skilled labor sector … depends on individual effort in education and public resources, but educational risk still causes (income) inequality. We show … in a Second-best setting. Contrary to standard models of income risk, it is not optimal to use a proportional wage tax …