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Acess to Treatment and Educational Inequalities in Cancer Survival

Fiva, Jon H.; Haegeland, Torbjørn; Rønning, Marte; … - CESifo - 2013

The public health care systems in the Nordic countries provide high quality care almost free of charge to all citizens. However, social inequalities in health persist. Previous research has, for example, documented substantial educational inequalities in cancer survival. We investigate to what...

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A Case for Taxing Education

Blumkin, Tomer; Sadka, Efraim - CESifo - 2005

We illustrate a novel informational feature of education, which the government may utilize. Discretionary decisions of … individuals to acquire education may serve as an additional signal (to earned labor income) on the underlying unobserved innate … education, as a supplement to the labor income tax. …

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(Re-)Distribution of Personal Incomes, Education and Economic Performance Across Countries

Rehme, Günther - CESifo - 2002

partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U …-shaped way on education. To maintain a given level of human capital it is shown that a less efficient schooling technology …-tax inequality if it spent more on education. …

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