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We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital …
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We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital …
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To design an optimal education policy, it is essential to account for the fertility differential between the poor and … children, determine the quality of children by choosing private expenditures on basic education in addition to public … expenditures on basic education, leave a bequest that could be used to finance college education. Moreover, there is an uncertainty …
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development regimes and it illustrates wider role of education in tackling possible development traps. -- growth ; human capital … ; education ; time discounting ; discount rate ; poverty …
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capital ; labor supply ; retirement ; training ; dynamic complementarity ; inequality ; returns to education ; (non …
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Parental transfers towards the education of children are non-trivial, especially in countries, characterized by both … growth and dynamic efficiency, especially when credit markets for education loans are missing. We demonstrate conditions …
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Maddison's international panel data show that technically it was the faster growth rate of the US economy that led to its overtaking the UK as economic superpower. We explore the contributing factors. Identifying the land-grant colleges system triggered by the 1862/1890 Morrill Acts (MAs) as a...
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This paper analyzes optimal linear taxes on capital and labor incomes in a life-cyclemodel of human capital investment, financial savings, and labor supply with heteroge-nous individuals. A dual income tax with a positive marginal tax rate on not onlylabor income but also capital income is...
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This paper studies how linear tax and education policy should optimally respond to skill-biased technical change (SBTC … effects due to wage-(de)compression, and iii) education distortions. Analytically, the effect of SBTC on these three … distributional losses, and it increases education distortions. Also, SBTC lowers optimal education subsidies, since SBTC generates …
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