Education policies and optimal taxation

This paper studies the design of education policies in a setting in which optimal redistributive labor taxation is available. It is usually argued that the crucial parameter to guide education policy is the complementarity of education and ability. This is true only when labor supply is fixed or whe...

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Autor Principal: Maldonado, Darío
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Lenguaje:Inglés (English)
Publicado: 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/22181
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-006-9015-7
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spelling ir-10336-221812022-05-02T12:37:13Z Education policies and optimal taxation Maldonado, Darío Education Optimal taxation This paper studies the design of education policies in a setting in which optimal redistributive labor taxation is available. It is usually argued that the crucial parameter to guide education policy is the complementarity of education and ability. This is true only when labor supply is fixed or when income taxes are not allowed. I show that, if labor supply is endogenous and if the government can tax income in a nonlinear way, the crucial parameter is how the education elasticity of wage changes with ability. Taking the elasticity criterion into account, education subsidies are optimal in cases in which, under the complementarity criterion, education taxes would be optimal. To do this, I use an asymmetric information setting that motivates nonlinear taxation of income and education. © 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. 2008 2020-05-25T23:55:42Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 15736970 09275940 https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/22181 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10797-006-9015-7 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess application/pdf instname:Universidad del Rosario
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Optimal taxation
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Optimal taxation
Maldonado, Darío
Education policies and optimal taxation
description This paper studies the design of education policies in a setting in which optimal redistributive labor taxation is available. It is usually argued that the crucial parameter to guide education policy is the complementarity of education and ability. This is true only when labor supply is fixed or when income taxes are not allowed. I show that, if labor supply is endogenous and if the government can tax income in a nonlinear way, the crucial parameter is how the education elasticity of wage changes with ability. Taking the elasticity criterion into account, education subsidies are optimal in cases in which, under the complementarity criterion, education taxes would be optimal. To do this, I use an asymmetric information setting that motivates nonlinear taxation of income and education. © 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
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