The total social benefits of college education exceed the private benefits because the government receives a share of … college education subsidies and for the excess burden of income taxation caused by the college margin. We also show how the … recent structural labor literature on college education. The model incorporates multidimensional heterogeneity, idiosyncratic …

Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality – ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …

Difference Principle, by which inequalities are shown to be permitted as far as they stimulate a greater effort in education in … the population, and so economic growth. To our knowledge, this is the only possibility for the inequality to be "bought …

, an activity that generates inequality in corporate taxation. Here, we examine how profit shifting relates to wage … inequality. Using rich matched employer-employee data from Norway, we find that profit-shifting firms pay higher wages … multinationals meaningfully contributes to wage inequality, both between and within firms. Finally, our back …