We develop a model of education where individuals face educational risk. Successfully entering the skilled labor sector … depends on individual effort in education and public resources, but educational risk still causes (income) inequality. We show …, because combining skill-specific tuition fees and public education spending provide both insurance and redistribution at lower …

This paper considers how optimal education and tax policy depends on the risk properties of human capital. It is … positive or a negative education premium. In the same model a positive intertemporal wedge is optimal. A set of generalizations …, including non-observability of education, non-observability of consumption, and temporal resolution of uncertainty, are then …

on education. Afterwards, I analyze how prioritarians would allocate resources in a dynamic model of skill formation and …