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Showing papers in "Journal of Public Economics in 1999"


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TL;DR: This article found that distortionary taxation reduces growth, whilst non-distortionary taxation does not, and that productive government expenditure enhances growth, whereas non-productive expenditure does not; they also found strong support for the Barro model (1990, Government spending in a simple model of endogenous growth).

1,195 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the significance of pre-existing factor taxes for the costs of pollution reduction under a wide range of environmental policy instruments is examined, and the authors employ analytical and numerical general equilibrium models to examine the significance.

503 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore what can be learned about the user cost elasticity from a micro dataset containing over 26,000 observations and find that the results depend to some extent on the specification and econometric technique, various diagnostics lead to a precisely estimated but small elasticity of approximately −0.25.

448 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse tax competition between two unequal size countries trying to attract a foreign-owned monopolist and show that in equilibrium the large country receives the investment and may even be able to charge a positive tax, if the difference in the sizes of the national markets is sufficiently great.

435 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, a simple model that unifies most of the results of the literature on fiscal federalism is presented, which describes an economy characterized by two levels of government, one public good, and a private good.

379 citations


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Philippe Martin1•
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the risk that integration in Europe increases regional income disparities, given the budget of the regional policies supposed to counteract this danger, and the answer of the governments is positive.

323 citations


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TL;DR: In a study of public good and solidarity experiments conducted in eastern and western Germany, this article found in both games that eastern subjects behave in a significantly more selfish manner than do western subjects.

315 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the implications of corruptibility and the potential abuse of authority for the effects and optimal design of (potentially non-linear) tax collection schemes and find that the distributional effects of evasion and corruption are unambiguously regressive under the kinds of schemes usual in practice.

311 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that in a world in which family background is important for labor market success, a centralised and egalitarian tertiary education does not necessarily help poor children and may take away from them a fundamental tool to prove their talent and to compete with rich children.

294 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the policy responsiveness of teen drinking in models that can condition on the unobserved state-specific attributes that may have biased conventional evaluations, and demonstrate that cross-state heterogeneity can be important and that beer taxes have relatively small and statistically insignificant effects on teen drinking.

281 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of allowing individuals to contribute any desired proportion of their endowments toward a threshold public good was examined experimentally, and it was shown that continuous rather than binary "all-or-nothing" contributions significantly increased contributions and facilitated provision.

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TL;DR: It is shown that longer waiting lists for NHS treatment are associated with greater purchases of private health insurance, and the National Health Service fails to drive out the private sector.

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TL;DR: The authors showed that the optimal long-run tax on capital income is zero even if the capital stock does not converge to a steady state nor to a stable state growth rate, but the long run wage tax is not generally zero.

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TL;DR: This paper extended the public goods model to the case in which individuals contribute both time and money to a charity that in turn produces a public good, and empirically tested the implications of the model using a national survey of charitable activity.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a new framework for analyzing transfers from parents to children that is more consistent with observed behavior than are the altruistic and exchange models alone, in particular the model developed here predicts differing behavior with respect to inter vivos transfers and bequests due to liquidity constraints and uncertainty about the recipient's permanent income.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a model of the waiting list for elective surgery in the British National Health Service is presented, where waiting time is allowed to influence both supply of and demand for surgery.

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Assaf Razin1, Efraim Sadka1•
TL;DR: In this paper, it is shown that migration is beneficial to all income (high and low) and all age (old and young) groups in a dynamic set-up, with a pension system (which is an important pillar of any welfare state).

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TL;DR: In this article, the role of government's allocation of tax revenues between two outlays: public investment in education (a transfer to the young generation) and social security benefits to the older generation, was studied.

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John R. Graham1•
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the degree to which personal taxes affect corporate financing decisions and find that debt usage is positively correlated with tax rates in each year 1980-1994, with significant coefficients in almost every year.

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TL;DR: This article showed that imposing a non-uniform commodity tax can Pareto-improve welfare even under nonlinear income taxation, contrary to the results in Diamond and Mirrlees (1971).

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether higher state cigarette taxes can be used to improve birth outcomes and found that smoking participation among pregnant women declines and average birth weights rise when excise taxes are increased.

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TL;DR: In this article, a one-shot provision point mechanism with money-back guarantee and proportional rebate of excess contributions is tested in an induced value framework and in experimental environments chosen to mimic field conditions and the results show that this relatively simple mechanism is empirically demand revealing in the aggregate when used with large groups of students who have heterogenous valuations for the public good.

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TL;DR: The authors examined the effects of participation in a government sponsored preschool program called Head Start on US hispanic children and found that large and significant benefits accrue to Head Start children when compared to siblings who did not participate in the program.

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TL;DR: In the presence of myopic governments, debt ceilings play a useful role in avoiding excessive debt accumulation in a monetary union and allowing a conservative, independent central bank to focus on price stability as mentioned in this paper.

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Robert Innes1•
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied self-reporting enforcement regimes when there are ex-post benefits of remediation or clean-up, and they found that selfreporting firms always engage in efficient remediation and that the government can costlessly impose stiffer non-reporter penalties.

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TL;DR: In this article, a self-reporting requirement and enforcement power is added to the standard model of pollution emission control enforcement, and it is shown that higher compliance rates are achieved with lower fines for noncompliance and the cost of enforcing a given level of aggregate pollution is minimized by setting the fine for non-compliance equal to zero.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that if changes in the management of common property resources impose fixed costs on them, or cause a decline in the prices of goods produced from it, the intra-household allocation of resources may alter in a manner detrimental to those individuals.

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Lisa Farrell1, Ian Walker1•
TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the demand for lottery tickets using pooled cross-section data that contain individual incomes and extensive information about characteristics, and use the estimates to evaluate the welfare effects arising from the introduction of the lottery.

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Caroline M. Hoxby1•
TL;DR: In this article, the authors construct an agency model of local public goods producers in which households make Tiebout choices among jurisdictions in a world of imperfect information and costly residential mobility and examine producers' effort and rent under local property tax finance and centralized finance.

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Ben Lockwood1•
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the problem of a central government which can insure regional governments (by use of intergovernmental grants) against region-specific and privately observed shocks either to income or demand for, or cost of, the public good.