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This paper analyzes to what extent tax planning impacts on the level of the inheritance tax rate perceived as fair. In a factorial survey conducted in Germany it finds out that tax planning increases the fair tax rate by roughly 4 percentage points. The fair tax rate is not only determined by...
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The elasticity of taxable income (ETI) is often interpreted as a sufficient statistic to assess the welfare costs of taxation. Building on the conceptual framework of Chetty (2009), we show that this assertion does no longer hold for tax systems with deduction possibilities if (i) deductions...
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We analyze individuals with heterogeneous time-inconsistent preferences that consume sin goods and make a savings decision. A government may tax the sin good and provide mandatory health insurance. Due to time-inconsistency, the individual sin good and savings choices in ict internalities. Due...
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I study a two-period model of nonlinear, information constrained income taxation. It is shown that time-consistent taxation of annual income welfare-dominates time-consistent taxation of lifetime income if preferences are such that stationary allocations are efficient. If uncertainty is taken...
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The paper studies the design of couples income taxation when consumption and labor supply decisions within the couple are made in a cooperative way according to some bargaining scheme. Specifically, the couple maximizes a weighted sum of the spouses utilities. In the first part of the paper, the...
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This paper studies second best policies for education, saving, and labour in an OLG model in which endogenous growth … equilibria are inefficient. The inefficiency is exacerbated if selfish individuals externalize the positive effect of education … on descendents' productivity. It is shown to be second best to subsidize education even relative to the first best if the …
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an instrument allows to disentangle the pure effect of parental income from effects related to parental education, family … to raise schooling levels and to protect investment in children's education against transitory income shocks. Although …
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positive outcomes on health and education. In this paper, we are particularly interested in testing if children participating …
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In a globalized, knowledge-based economy, education and training is of great importance for increasing economic and …. According to Eurostat, Romania allocates less money to education than most European Union countries. These allocations reflect … the low level of attention paid to the education and training system. This paper analyses the situation and trends that …
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We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility – a so far understudied margin of education, which we … instrument by arguably exogenous variation induced through college expansions. While college education reduces the probability of … becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have slightly more children than mothers without a college education. Unfolding the …
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