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We develop a two-period, three-class of income model where low-income agents are borrowing constrained because of capital market imperfections, and where redistributive expenditure is financed by tax and government debt. When the degree of capital market imperfection is high, there is an...
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We develop a two-period, three-class of income model where low-income agents are borrowing constrained because of capital market imperfections, and where redistributive expenditure is financed by tax and government debt. When the degree of capital market imperfection is high, there is an...
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I analyze simultaneous voting on the wage tax rate and investment in public education using a model with three … benefits. I derive the results both for a once-and-for-all voting system with commitment and for repeated voting. My model …
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technology, a private system. We show that, if income inequality is large, the voting majority of high-income and low …
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politicians who vote against the party line in roll-call votes. The results do not show that parties account for the voting …
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Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the German electorate (N19,500). The electorate is...
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Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the German electorate (N19,500). The electorate is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018227
This paper analyzes simultaneous voting on the wage tax rate and investment in public education with three overlapping … benefits. The presence of productivity differences introduces a time-consistency problem with repeated voting. This can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262150
influences the succeeding education policy. More surprisingly, the prospect of voting on education policy also affects the … the two-dimensional heterogeneity of the citizens shapes the voting equilibrium in our setting with sequential voting. …
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