Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/72392 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP06/15
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
We analyse how progressive taxation and education subsidies affect schooling decisions when the returns to education are stochastic. We use the theory of real options to solve the problem of education choice in a dynamic stochastic model. We show that education attainment will be an increasing function of the risk associated with education. Furthermore, this result holds regardless of the degree of risk aversion. We also show that progressive taxes will tend to increase education attainment.
Subjects: 
Education Choice
Dynamic Optimization
Optimal Stopping
Uncertainty
JEL: 
J24
C61
D81
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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