Bou-Habib, Paul and Olsaretti, Serena (2023) Children or Migrants as Public Goods? Political Studies. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217231199556
Bou-Habib, Paul and Olsaretti, Serena (2023) Children or Migrants as Public Goods? Political Studies. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217231199556
Bou-Habib, Paul and Olsaretti, Serena (2023) Children or Migrants as Public Goods? Political Studies. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217231199556
Abstract
Why, and to what extent, must taxpayers share the costs of raising children with parents? The most influential argument over this question has been the public goods argument: taxpayers must share costs with parents because and to the extent that child-rearing contributes towards public goods by helping to develop valuable human capital. However, political theorists have not examined the public goods argument in a context in which replacement migration is available: if replacement migration can provide valuable human capital more efficiently than child- rearing, can the public goods argument still justify a taxpayer obligation to share the costs of child-rearing? This article argues that there are importantly different versions of the public goods argument, and that on a plausible version of that argument, it can withstand the replacement migration challenge under most circumstances.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Family policies, Public goods, Immigration, Fairness, Cost-Sharing |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Government, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 08 Aug 2023 11:02 |
Last Modified: | 08 Nov 2023 12:20 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/36135 |
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