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Optimal Child-Related Transfers with Endogenous Fertility

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  • Andras Simonovits

    (Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, also Mathematical Institute of Budapest University of Technology, and Department of Economics of CEU)

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To compare the systems of child benefits and of family tax deductions, we create a model with endogenous fertility and a basic income, financed from proportional wage taxes. The deduction's efficiency is presumably lower than the benefit's and may even be lower than that of pure basic income.

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  • Andras Simonovits, 2015. "Optimal Child-Related Transfers with Endogenous Fertility," CERS-IE WORKING PAPERS 1514, Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies.
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    Keywords

    progressive income tax; child benefits; family tax deductions; endogenous fertility;
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    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth

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