This chapter analyzes the public provision of higher education subsidies. When voters have a positive utility from the share of college-educated among the young, they may decide to vote for subsidies for students which increase the number of college students. These subsidies are paid for by income taxes that reduce the amount of consumer goods voters can purchase. There are a group of credit-co...

One of the main aims of telecommunication subsidies in developing countries is to extend the information and communication services to the information “have nots” through subsidized communication services. However, subsidies may have an impact on network resource utilization, quality of service and the amount of revenue generated. For example, subsidies may lead to low Quality of Service (QoS) ...

Struggling with increasing unemployment rates, many European countries intensified the role of active labour market policies (ALMP) in the 1990s. Active labour market programmes include training programmes such as job search and personality courses, computer courses, language courses and further vocational training.They also contain temporary wage and employment subsidies for competitive and fo...

Child Care Assistance: Are Subsidies or Tax Credits Better? We evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women’s labor supply, household income and welfare, demand for formal and informal child care and government expenditure. Using Australian data, we estimate a joint, discrete structural model of labor supply and child care demand. We introduce two methodo...

We develop a model of human capital formation with endogenous labor supply and heterogeneous agents to explore the optimal level of education subsidies along with the optimal schedule of the labor income tax. If the government can observe inputs into the production of human capital, subsidies on education ensure efficiency in human capital accumulation and labor taxes are more progressive than ...

Objective Targeting rural outreach services to areas of highest relative need is challenging because of the higher costs it imposes on health workers to travel longer distances. This paper studied whether subsidies have the potential to support the provision of specialist outreach services into more remote locations. Methods National data about subsidies for medical specialist outreach provider...

in this research, the effects of combine renovation as a mechanic harvest evaluation index of wheat were studied. results show that this renovation has decreased wheat losses by 1368 thousand tons which worth 2462400 million rials. two scenarios were investigated. first, under real condition with earmark of government subsidies for purchasing machines, was studied at both guaranteed and world p...

The objective of this paper is to assess the impact of public subsidies on farm technical efficiency using recent advances in nonparametric efficiency analysis. To this end, we use robust conditional frontier techniques as well as insights from recent developments in nonparametric econometrics. The paper contributes to the ongoing methodological discussion on how to model the effect of public s...