and because the children have different access to education. Public policy is thus called for, for vertical as well as … cannot remedy this. Quantity controls become necessary: a compulsory education package, financed by a redistributive tax … system, achieves both types of equity. Redistributive taxation and compulsory education are therefore best seen as …

the form of in-kind collective expenditure (e.g., education, defense, infrastructure). The dominant assumption in the …, we find that public education spending goes disproportionately to the bottom half of the income distribution. A lump …-sum allocation provides a good approximation. Moving beyond the cross-section, we find that public education expenditure is …

consumption expenditure (e.g., education, defense, and the general legal and administrative infrastructure). Because of data … some of the collective consumption expenditure is actually distributed. We focus on public spending on education, which … makes up about 5% of national income in most OECD countries. We find that, in Germany at least, education spending tends to …

A large share of public funds is spent on private goods (education, health care, day care, etc.). This paper integrates …

's education system, which is characterized by sources of school funding, the average expenditure per pupil, and the type of … are considered: (1) greater congestion in public schools; (2) a lower average tax base for education funding; (3) reduced … wages for low-skilled workers and so more dependence by low-skilled locals on public education; (4) a greater skill premium …

We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with risk averse households who are heterogeneous in income …. -- voting ; higher education ; financing scheme …

We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with two regions and two separated labor markets … subsidize higher education costs or whether to rely on tuition fees only. We find that in equilibrium, in both regions a … rates, but the larger are the numbers of exchange students. -- voting ; higher education ; financing scheme ; mobility …

We examine ways of funding higher education, comparing upfront tuition fees with graduate taxes. The tax dominates, as … encourage more people to attend university than would the equivalent upfront tuition fee. -- higher education ; graduate tax …