Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/26349 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2304
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Altruistic parents, who differ in income, make financial transfers to their children, who differ in ability. The children invest in post-compulsory education, subject to an endogenous credit constraint, and taking policy as given. There are two policy tools: a subsidy to those who participate in education and a proportional income tax. Not all children participate; a larger subsidy encourages participation, and a larger income tax discourages it. The parents, prior to making transfers, vote on policy. A voting equilibrium, if it exists, is such that voters in the two tails of the income distribution support a reduction, while the “middle-class” supports an expansion, of the education subsidy. Public support of education is a policy with regressive elements as it entails, among other things, a redistribution from the poor to the middle-earners. We characterise a local equilibrium analytically, verify its existence numerically, and finally perform a number of comparative statics exercises.
JEL: 
H52
I28
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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