Public Education and Economic Growth Under Progressive Taxation
| dc.contributor.author | Benos, Nikos | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-06-07T19:08:23Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-06-07T19:08:23Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper studies the general equilibrium implications of alternative tax systems. In doing so, it extends the work of Glomm-Ravikumar (1992). In particular, we study two systems called proportional taxation (PP) and progressive taxation (PG). Under both systems, the economy-wide human capital stock generates positive externalities for each individual. In addition, there is active social education policy in the form of tax-transfers that can augment the economy-wide human capital stock and policy is chosen by a centralized fiscal authority. The basic result is that multiple equilibrium tax vectors exist under progressive taxation, while this is not true under proportional taxation. Also, numerical simulations show that a system characterized by high progressive and low proportional taxes is welfare superior to one of high proportional and low progressive taxation. This is even if tax-transfers are distorting. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://unbscholar.lib.unb.ca/handle/1882/32897 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | |
| dc.rights | http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec | |
| dc.title | Public Education and Economic Growth Under Progressive Taxation | |
| dc.type | senior report | |
| thesis.degree.level | undergraduate |