,How Taxpayers Benefit When Students Attain Higher Levels of Education

How Taxpayers Benefit When Students Attain Higher Levels of Education


 

Publication Date: January 2009

Publisher: RAND Corporation

Author(s): Stephen J. Carroll; Emre Erkut

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Type: Brief

Abstract:

Describes how increases in students' educational attainment result in benefits to taxpayers, in the form of increases in tax revenues and decreases in public spending on social support programs and correctional facilities.