Why Invest in Your Neighbor? Social Contract on Educational Investment

International Tax and Public Finance

Volumn 7, Issue 4-5, 2000, Pages 547-562

  Poutvaara, Panu ^a   Kanniainen, Vesa ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Complementarity; Externalities in education; Social contract; Tax competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005485185     PISSN: 09275940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008745708377     Document Type: Article

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