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Income tax, consumption value of education, and the choice of educational type

Alstadsæter, Annette
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2003-06
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Abstract
How the tax system might affect the individual’s educational level is well

studied. But the question of how the tax system affects the individual’s choice

of educational type is mostly ignored. This is an important issue, since the

educational choice of today’s young generation determines the skill composition

of tomorrow’s labor force and hence the future production possibilities of

the country. This paper studies the problem in a partial model. A progressive

tax system might in fact introduce distortions in the individuals’s educational

choice and induce him to choose more of the educational type with the higher

consumption value. If he also puts more weight on the present than on the future, this effect is strengthened further.
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Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Department of Economics
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2003:11

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