Consumption vs. income taxes when private human capital investments are imperfectly observable

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-28

  Davies, James B ^a   Zeng, Jinli ^b   Zhang, Jie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Education subsidies; Flat rate taxation; Growth; H21; H41; O41; Welfare

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041778846     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(99)00053-5     Document Type: Article

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