Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/75559 
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 198
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
The effects and optimal choice of policy instruments affecting the family (child benefits, taxes on child-specific commodities, etc.) are examined within the context of a household economics model with fertility choice. The simultaneous consideration of child benefits and commodity taxes in the presence of endogenous fertility yields some remarkable results. One is that, if the government can distinguish between child-specific and adult-specific commodities, it may then be optimal to tax family size and subsidize child-specific commodities. Under more restrictive conditions, it is also shown that the tax system should be so designed, that children are a net tax liability if households are differentiated for the husband's income, a net tax asset if households are differentiated for the wife's wage rate.
Subjects: 
Endogenous fertility
optimal indirect taxation
child-specific commodities
child benefits
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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