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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w18332 |
来源ID | Working Paper 18332 |
Equalizing Outcomes and Equalizing Opportunities: Optimal Taxation when Children's Abilities Depend on Parents' Resources | |
Alexander M. Gelber; Matthew C. Weinzierl | |
发表日期 | 2012-08-23 |
出版年 | 2012 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Empirical research suggests that parents' economic resources affect their children's future earnings abilities. Optimal tax policy therefore treats future ability distributions as endogenous to current taxes. We model this endogeneity, calibrate the model to match estimates of the intergenerational transmission of earnings ability in the United States, and use the model to simulate such an optimal policy numerically. The optimal policy in this context is more redistributive toward low-income parents than existing U.S. tax policy. It also increases the probability that low-income children move up the economic ladder, generating a present-value welfare gain of one and three-quarters percent of consumption in our baseline case. |
主题 | Public Economics ; Taxation ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w18332 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/576005 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Alexander M. Gelber,Matthew C. Weinzierl. Equalizing Outcomes and Equalizing Opportunities: Optimal Taxation when Children's Abilities Depend on Parents' Resources. 2012. |
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