What You Don't Know Can't Help You: Lessons of Behavioural Economics for Tax-Based Student Aid

Neill, Christine

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“…These credits benefit students who have tax payable, and unused amounts can carry forward to future years or be transferred to a parent, grandparent or spouse. The credits do not work as well for students from lower-income families, who can only use them once they have enough taxable income to claim them (Neill 2013). This Shadow Budget therefore proposes to transform the tuition and education/ textbook tax credits into refundable benefits paid to students immediately after they file their tax returns.…”

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Where the Bucks Stop: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2016

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Laurin²

2016

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Where the Bucks Stop: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2016

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2016

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“…Similarly, the federal and provincial tuition tax credits and education amounts are claimed during the years an individual is enrolled in school. 19 Both of these are non-refundable, so they typically do not ease a student's budget constraint until after graduation, as explained in Neill (2013). Non-refundable tax credits allow an individual to benefit from the credit only to the extent of the taxes owed in that year.…”

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“…23 Additionally, proposed tuition increases in Quebec resulted in student strikes in 2011 that lasted for over six months. Further information about the details and costs of government funding for post-secondary education can be found in Neill (2013).…”

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“…40 36 We are grateful to René Morissette for providing us with SAS code to implement the procedure.37 The maximum amounts come from eitherMorissette et al (2015) orNeill (2013).38 To correctly estimate the average tuition, the amount reported is converted into a full-timeequivalent tuition amount.39 The values used are two-year averages, owing to the overlap of the school year and the tax year. Unfortunately for the purposes of this study, the tax system does not differentiate between college and university enrollment.…”

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What You Don't Know Can't Help You: Lessons of Behavioural Economics for Tax-Based Student Aid

Cited by 13 publications

References 28 publications

Where the Bucks Stop: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2016

Where the Bucks Stop: A Shadow Federal Budget for 2016

Four Papers in Empirical Economics

Diplomacy, Trade and Aid: Searching for 'Synergies'

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