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Self-Financing Education, Borrowing Constraints, Government Policies, and Economic Growth

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  • Hoang D. Duong

    (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

  • Fernando Sánchez-Losada

    (Universitat de Barcelona)

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We analyze how public policies for self-financing education, public fund for loans and deferred deductibility of education expenses, affect growth in an overlapping generations economy where individuals can be borrowing-constrained on human capital investment. We show that public loans positively affect growth in the unconstrained economy, while how tax deductibility affects growth depends on the magnitude of both public loans and tax deductibility. In the borrowing-constrained economy, public loans positively affect growth, while tax deductibility does not affect growth. Both government policies affect the borrowing-constraint tightness and, therefore, can shift the economy from being borrowing-constrained to unconstrained or vice versa.

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  • Hoang D. Duong & Fernando Sánchez-Losada, 2016. "Self-Financing Education, Borrowing Constraints, Government Policies, and Economic Growth," UB School of Economics Working Papers 2016/354, University of Barcelona School of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:ewp:wpaper:354web
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    Keywords

    Self-financing education; public education fund; tax deduction.;
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    JEL classification:

    • O40 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General
    • H20 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - General
    • I22 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Educational Finance; Financial Aid

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