Promoting education under distortionary taxation: Equality of opportunity versus welfarism

Autor:	Ravi Shankar, Matti Tuomala, Jukka Pirttilä, Pertti Haaparanta, Tuuli Paukkeri
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	Government Inequality Public economics media_common.quotation_subject Welfarism 05 social sciences Economic inequality Income tax 0502 economics and business Economics Private education 050207 economics Public education 050205 econometrics media_common
Zdroj:	WIDER Working Paper ISBN: 9789292566524 WIDER Working Paper
DOI:	10.35188/unu-wider/2019/652-4
Popis:	A common claim in the policy discourse is that a government wishing to achieve equality of opportunity should use public provision of education for equalisation of opportunities rather than income taxation, which only equalizes incomes. We develop a framework in which the tax and education provision rules in the welfarist and non-welfarist/equality of opportunity cases can be transparently compared. We show that in addition to education policies, progressive taxation also plays a role in achieving equality of opportunity, and illustrate how its use may differ under the two objectives. We also show how the provision of public education depends on how private education choices respond, potentially differentially by higher- and lower-income families.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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