public provision of education for equalisation of opportunities rather than income taxation, which only equalizes incomes. We … develop a framework in which the tax and education provision rules in the welfarist and non-welfarist/equality of opportunity … cases can be transparently compared. We show that in addition to education policies, progressive taxation also plays a role …

transmission of education of a reform that delayed tracking by two years in one of Germany's federal states. While the reform had …