Showing papers in "Journal of Public Economics in 2001"

TL;DR: This paper found that self-interest cannot explain the effect of these beliefs on redistributive preferences, and that these beliefs may be spurious if they are correlated with income, and selfinterest is not properly controlled for.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the nutrition-learning nexus using a unique longitudinal data set that follows a large sample of Filipino children from birth until the end of their primary education and found that better nourished children perform significantly better in school, partly because they enter school earlier and thus have more time to learn but mostly because of greater learning productivity per year of schooling.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a simple and straight-forward static model of the microfoundations of this relationship, in which the curve depends on increasing returns in the technological link between consumption of a desired good and abatement of its undesirable byproduct.

TL;DR: In this article, a group of 1724 randomly selected Minnesota taxpayers were informed by letter that the returns they were about to file would be "closely examined" and the effect was much stronger for those with more opportunity to evade; the difference in differences is not statistically significant for those who do not have self-employment or farm income, and do not pay estimated tax.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effect of consumer education mandates on subsequent financial decision-making in high school students and found that they increased exposure to financial curricula and subsequent asset accumulation once exposed students reached adulthood.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors derive conditions under which completely self-interested entrepreneurs opt for not-for-profit status, despite the fact that this status limits their ability to enjoy the profits of their enterprises.

TL;DR: This paper used a survey of the unemployed to examine how household expenditures after a job loss respond to the level of income replacement provided by UI, and found significant effects of varying the replacement ratio among the third of the sample who did not have assets at the job loss.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that it is not always optimal to use the common anti-seniority rule whereby experts speak in order of increasing expertise, and that a committee with more able experts may be afflicted by greater herding problems, yielding a worse outcome.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze corruption in law enforcement: the payment of bribes to enforcement agents, threats to frame innocent individuals in order to extort money from them, and actual framing of innocent individuals.

TL;DR: In this article, a life-cycle model of consumption, implemented with the use of dynamic programming techniques, is used to construct a utility-based measure of annuity value for individuals and couples in the Health and Retirement Survey.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce a new design for experiments with the voluntary contributions mechanism for public goods, where subjects report a complete contribution function in each period, i.e., a contribution level for various marginal rates of transformation between a public and a private good.

TL;DR: In this article, the incidence of ad valorem and unit excise taxes in an oligopolistic industry with differentiated products and price-setting (Bertrand) firms was analyzed and conditions for these effects to arise.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors exploit the devolved nature of environmental regulation generates rich regulatory variation across regions, industries and time to estimate employment effects of sharply increased air quality regulation in Los Angeles.

TL;DR: The authors used a national panel of public school districts to study the impact of an aging population on public education spending and found that the elderly have only a modest overall negative effect on education spending at the district level.

TL;DR: The authors show that the same welfare effects of environmental protection can be achieved, by taxes that raise revenue, certain command and control regulations that raise no revenue, and even subsidies that cost revenue.

TL;DR: The authors compare taxes and quotas when firms and the regulator have asymmetric information about the slope of firms’ abatement costs, and investigate the importance of stock size and the magnitude of uncertainty on the policy ranking.

TL;DR: This paper examined the Law of 1/n in bicameral and unicameral legislative structures using a cross-section of democratic countries and found that legislative size matters under both legislature structures.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impacts of mortality decline on long run growth in a dynastic family, two-sector growth model with social security, and found that a rise in longevity has direct effects on fertility, human capital investment, and growth, as well as indirect effects through increasing unfunded social security contributions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used U.S. Statistics of Income (SOI) Corporate Income Tax Returns balance sheet data on all corporations, to estimate the effects of changes in corporate tax rates on the debt policies of firms of different sizes.

TL;DR: This article reviewed four well-known theoretical models of private bequest behavior, notes their differing implications for public policy, and discusses a way of empirically dis- criminating among them, and implements the test with micro data from Sweden (LLS) and the U.S. (PSID).

TL;DR: The 1991 reforms to the UK NHS created a group of buyers of hospital care from amongst primary care physicians, and the implementation of the reforms was such that these buyers had incentives to increase their use of hospital services prior to entering the scheme in order to inflate their budgets as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed to combine the consumption externality model and the spatial duopoly model to investigate the market implication of these externalities, and they showed that when conformity is strong enough, different equilibria may exist.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined welfare improving and revenue neutral directions marginal policy reforms for an economy with nonidentical individuals and an externality that has a feedback effect on the consumption of taxed goods.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the conditions under which a charity prefers to play a sequential game rather than a simultaneous game and show that with more general utility functions that include additional effects such as warm-glow or snob appeal, the charity may benefit from announcing contributions.

TL;DR: The authors studied the impact of changes of total labor costs on employment of low-wage workers in France in a period, 1990 to 1998, that saw sudden and large changes in these costs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the current estate and gift tax rules that apply to intergenerational transfers in the US and summarize the incentives for inter vivos giving, gifts from a donor to a recipient while the donor is alive, as a strategy for reducing estate tax liability.

TL;DR: In this article, the existence of distortions from individuals competing to attain social status by using consumption signals justifies some measure of income tax as a counter-acting distortion, and the question posed here is whether it also constitutes a reason for a more progressive income tax schedule.

TL;DR: This paper examined the impact of a specific property tax limit, Proposition 2 1 2 in Massachusetts, on the fiscal behavior of cities and towns in Massachusetts and the capitalization of that behavior into property values.

TL;DR: This article examined taxation of domestic and foreign-owned banks and found that the profitability of foreign banks is found to rise relatively little with their domestic tax burden, perhaps reflecting the availability of foreign tax credits and profit shifting opportunities.