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On Public Education Spending under Nonlinear Income Taxation

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  • Alan Krause

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This paper examines a model in which public education spending is skill specific. It may be directed towards low-skill or high-skill individuals, increasing their respective skills and wages. Education spending is financed by nonlinear income taxation. We show that the tax and education-spending policy most preferred by low-skill individuals may include more education spending for high-skill individuals than for themselves. The tax and education-spending policy most preferred by high-skill individuals has no spending on education for low-skill individuals. Our results provide support for previous findings that education policy should favour the high-skilled, despite the government's redistributive goals.

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  • Alan Krause, 2018. "On Public Education Spending under Nonlinear Income Taxation," Discussion Papers 18/07, Department of Economics, University of York.
    • Handle: RePEc:yor:yorken:18/07
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    Keywords

    Public education; nonlinear income; taxation;
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    JEL classification:

    • H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
    • H42 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Publicly Provided Private Goods

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