A case for taxing education |
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| Authors: | Tomer Blumkin Efraim Sadka |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Economics, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheba, 84105, Israel;(2) The Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, 69978, Isreal |
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| Abstract: | In this paper we establish, contrary to conventional wisdom, a case for taxing education, as a supplement to the labor income
tax, by drawing on some informational feature of education, which the government may utilize. Discretionary decisions of individuals
to acquire education may serve as an additional signal (to earned labor income) on the underlying unobserved innate earning
ability, thereby mitigating the informational constraint faced by the government.
JEL Classification H2 · D6 |
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| Keywords: | Optimal taxation Re-distribution Education Inequality |
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