Showing papers in "Journal of Public Economics in 1995"

TL;DR: The relationship between economic development and carbon dioxide emissions, a greenhouse gas central to global warming predictions, was examined in this article, showing that emissions growth continues because output and population will grow most rapidly in lower-income nations with high marginal propensity to emit (MPE) carbon dioxide.

TL;DR: In this article, the link between environmental quality and economic growth in an endogenous growth model that incorporates pollution-augmenting technological change is explored, and conditions under which sustainable growth is both feasible and optimal.

TL;DR: In this article, a two-region model is presented in which an imperfectly competitive firm produces a good with increasing returns at the plant level, but production of the good causes local pollution, and the firm decides whether to maintain plants in both regions, serve both regions from a single plant or shut down.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe patterns of participation in 401(k) plans, contrast these patterns with IRA participation, and evaluate the net impact of 401 (k) contributions on personal saving.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the particular situation where a consumer makes purchases of a discrete commodity of which there are a number of brands and used a utility-consistent, combined discrete choice and count data model.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a set of panel data estimates for 159 of the most prominent UK charities for the period 1983-1990. And they evaluate alternative specifications, and settle on a fixed-effects estimation.

TL;DR: The authors investigates the anti-poverty effectiveness of public transfers taking private-transfer responses into account, and some of the empirical findings suggest an exchange, rather than altruistic, motive for private transfers, indicating that the effects of public transfer can be magnified by private behavior.

TL;DR: In this article, an overlapping-generations model of environmental externalities and capital accumulation is presented, where tax policies must be set by a long-lived government agency whose planning horizon is the environment's, not the individual agent's, lifetime.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors measure the impact of government tax policies to encourage residential conservation investment on the probability of making these investments using panel data on individual tax returns and variation in state tax policy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that in a conventional efficiency wage model, a minimum wage may increase the level of employment in low-wage jobs, in a model with a large number of employers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the level and composition of government spending in U.S. states that maintain separate budgets for capital and operating expenditures with that in states that employ unified budgets.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors extend the results of Boadway and Bruce (1984, 24, 231−239) and Fane (1987, 33, 95−105) to describe a tax on business profits which is neutral with respect to investment and wind-up decisions, and default outcomes, under uncertainty and bankruptcy risk.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the tax rate used by individuals when making marginal economic decisions and find that there are at least as many individuals who use the average tax rate "as if" it is the marginal tax rate.

TL;DR: In this article, tax competition is modeled as a non-cooperative game with respect to both corporate tax rates and the form of double taxation relief, and the subgame perfect equilibrium is shown to be independent of the tax rules.

TL;DR: In this paper, the optimal disability and retirement (or welfare) benefits with imperfect disability evaluation (with some able workers judged disabled and some disabled workers judged able) were analyzed for a given screening mechanism and briefly considered the problem of optimal evaluations of disability evidence.

TL;DR: This article examined the effects of social security on the steady-state growth of per capita income in an endogenous growth model in which agents care about their own consumption, the number of children, and the welfare of each child.

TL;DR: This paper examined the determinants of charitable giving, including the role of altruism, and examined whether a household's decision to give or not give and the amount it gives are influenced in the same or different ways by the household's characteristics and economic circumstances.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the modelling of the take-up of state support by going beyond the standard analysis and recognising that both the researcher and the welfare agency make errors in assessing entitlement.

TL;DR: In this paper, an alternative approach, based on actual and simulated joint distributions of consumption over time, was proposed to distinguish the extent of protection against poverty from promotion out of poverty.

TL;DR: In this article, a model of oligopoly price behavior and tax incidence for the U.S. cigarette industry for the period 1955-1990 is presented, and a cost function is estimated, and shows manufacture to be subject to increasing returns to scale.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze a central authority's policies against such discrimination given a situation in which a government has private information on product quality, and the competing firms have private information of their own costs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider strategic monetary transfers between two agents when these contribute to a mutual public good, if the agents differ in their contribution productivity, then the less productive agent has an incentive to make large unconditional transfers to the more productive agent.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an analysis of the supply-restriction model of growth controls and show that perturbations of preferences or other characteristics of a single city can have important spillover effects that alter the choices of all cities in the region.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of disability on household welfare is estimated by equivalence scales using data from the 1986-1987 FES Disability Survey, and three methods of identifying scales from cross-section data are considered; these imply a series of restrictions that are tested on quadratic logarithmic Engel curves.

TL;DR: In this paper, a rank-3 demand system equivalence scales measuring the cost of demographic characteristics independently of the base utility level can be identified from cross-section data without demographic separability restrictions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the potential conflicts between cost minimization and safety care in environmental risk with adverse selection, limited liability, risk aversion and multiprincipals.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that if the social cost of profit is positive but not too large, incomplete information biases optimal market structure in favor of sole sourcing, but this bias in favour of sole-sourcing may be reversed if the Social Cost of Profit is large.

TL;DR: In this article, a simple model of political inaction in a two-party democracy is developed, showing the conditions under which both parties will prefer to live with an unsatisfactory and inefficient status quo rather than to raise an issue.

TL;DR: In this paper, a distance function is used to model technology, retrieve information concerning substitutability and shadow prices of personnel, and test for cost minimization, and it is found that the more adverse the public safety environment and budgetary condition, the more efficiently resources are allocated.

TL;DR: In this article, the Pigouvian fees are imposed on emissions revealed by the polluting firms in exchange for a lower ambient tax, and the non-point source case can be gradually transformed into a point source case.