Family size and optimal income taxation |
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| Authors: | Helmuth Cremer Arnaud Dellis Pierre Pestieau |
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| Institution: | (1) IDEI et GREMAQ, Université de Toulouse, Allée de Brienne 21, 31000 Toulouse, France (Fax: +33-5-61128637; e-mail: helmut@cict.fr), FR;(2) Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY607255-2818, USA (e-mail: ard23@cornell.edu), US;(3) CREPP, Université de Liège, CORE and Delta, 7 Bvd du Rectorat, 4000 Liège, Belgium (+32-43663106, e-mail: p.pestieau@ulg.ac.be), BE |
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| Abstract: | This paper studies the role of family size in the design of optimal income taxation. We consider a second best setting where
the government observes the number of children and the income of the parents but not their productivity. With a linear tax schedule the marginal tax rate is shown to decrease with the number of children, while the relationship between the demogrant
and family size appears to be ambiguous. With two ability levels, optimal non-linear income tax implies zero marginal tax rates for the higher ability parents; low ability parents have positive marginal tax rates that
decrease with family size.
Received: 4 September 2000/Accepted: 17 May 2001 |
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| Keywords: | JEL classification: J13 H21 H23 |
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