The Benefits to Taxpayers from Increases in Students' Educational Attainment
Meeting the educational demands of the future will be expensive; however, in most states, public schools from kindergarten through the university level already experience budgetary challenges. Policymakers face the challenge of motivating taxpayers to provide the funds needed to meet mounting education needs. In this volume, Carroll and Erkut examine the financial benefits that taxpayers — regardless of whether they have children in school — realize from increases in educational attainment. First, investments in education benefit taxpayers because the investments produce more highly educated individuals, who tend to earn more income than those with lower levels of education and pay more in taxes, thus contributing more to programs such as Social Security. Second, more highly educated individuals are less likely to draw on social support programs, such as Medicare. And finally, more highly educated individuals are less likely to commit crimes, so increases in educational attainment reduce public spending on incarceration. Carroll and Erkut estimate the monetary value of these benefits over an individual's lifetime and how they vary as a result of education level.
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Contents
Chapter One
Introduction
Chapter Two
Analytic Approach
Chapter Three
Payments for Taxes and Social Programs
Chapter Four
Spending on Social Support Programs
Chapter Five
Educational Attainment and Spending on the Corrections System
Chapter Six
The Costs of Providing Additional Education
Chapter Seven
Educational Attainment and Public Revenues and Costs
Appendix A
Data and Sources
Appendix B
Estimating Tax Payments
Appendix C
Social Program Participation and Costs
Appendix D
Incarceration Cost Estimations
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