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How to deal with covert child labour, and give children an effective education, in a poor developing country
Cigno, Alessandro - 2011
As credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given that intra-family transfers, and the way a child uses her time outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child labour below its efficient level (if positive), and...
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How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country: An Optimal Taxation Problem with Moral Hazard
Cigno, Alessandro - CESifo - 2010
work a child does, are private information, the second-best policy uses a combination of need and merit based education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596586
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How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country : An Optimal Taxation Problem with Moral Hazard
Cigno, Alessandro - Center for Intergenerational Studies, Institute of … - 2010
As the return to education (and possibly also parental income) is uncertain, and given that the work a child does … across families using a flat-rate education grant, and a tax on parental income. That done, it should use a scholarship …
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How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country
Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
As credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given that intra-family transfers, and the way a child uses her time outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child labour below its efficient level (if positive), and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009001091
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What Influences the Savings Decisions of the Hungarian Population?
Kökény, Annamária Horváthné; Széles, Zsuzsanna - In: Public Finance Quarterly 59 (2014) 4, pp. 425-443
four household types believe that the primary focus should be on the education of vocational and high school students …
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What Should Society Expect from Heirs? A Proposal for a Comprehensive Inheritance Tax
Batchelder, Lily L. - 2017
The upcoming one-year repeal of the federal estate tax in the U.S. creates an opportunity to reconsider the taxation of wealth transfers. This article argues that if inheritances are included in an optimal tax framework, existing evidence suggests that the ideal wealth transfer tax would be much...
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Estate Tax Reform : Issues and Options
Batchelder, Lily L. - 2009
The upcoming one-year repeal of the federal estate tax creates an opportunity to reconsider the taxation of wealth transfers. This paper argues that federal wealth transfer taxes should be retained and potentially expanded. The estate tax contributes importantly to the progressivity of the tax...
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Reform Options for the Estate Tax System : Targeting Unearned Income, Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
Batchelder, Lily L. - 2010
This testimony makes three main points. First, inheritances tend to exacerbate existing economic disparities and may be the most important barrier to intergenerational economic mobility. These tendencies are most pronounced at the top of the income distribution. While inherited income is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014045314
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Education and Prosocial Behavior: Evidence from Time Use Survey
Akar, Betul; Akyol, Pelin; Okten, Cagla - 2019
We use the extension of compulsory education from five to eight years in Turkey as an instrument for educational … attainment to investigate the causal effects of education on prosocial behavior by utilizing Turkish Time Use Survey data. Ours … is the first paper that investigates the causal effect of education on volunteering. We find that the education reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141195
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Education and prosocial behavior : evidence from time use survey
Akar, Betul; Akyol, Şaziye Pelin; Okten, Cagla - 2019
We use the extension of compulsory education from five to eight years in Turkey as an instrument for educational … attainment to investigate the causal effects of education on prosocial behavior by utilizing Turkish Time Use Survey data. Ours … is the first paper that investigates the causal effect of education on volunteering. We find that the education reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099324