Showing papers in "Journal of Public Economics in 2004"

TL;DR: In the United States and Great Britain, life satisfaction has run approximately flat through time in Britain this article, consistent with the Easterlin hypothesis [Nations and Households in Economic Growth: Essays in Honour of Moses Abramowitz (1974) Academic Press; J. Econ. Behav. Org., 27 (1995) 35].

TL;DR: The authors found that individuals have a lower tendency to report themselves happy when inequality is high, even after controlling for individual income, a large set of personal characteristics and year and country (or, in the case of the US, state) dummies.

TL;DR: The authors explored the effect of extra schooling induced through compulsory schooling laws on the likelihood of becoming politically involved in the United States and the United Kingdom, finding that educational attainment is related to several measures of political interest and involvement in both countries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the same social effects that institutions like charitable fund-raising are manipulating to help overcome free-riding and to promote economic efficiency were examined in an experiment that unmasks subjects.

TL;DR: The authors found that educational attainment has large and statistically significant effects on subsequent voter participation and support for free speech, and that additional schooling appears to increase the quality of civic knowledge as measured by the frequency of newspaper readership.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how two important channels for social and internalized norms, social approval and framing, affect cooperation among strangers in a public good game and found that the first treatment effect increases voluntary contributions significantly.

TL;DR: This article examined the labor force participation response of married couples to EITC expansions between 1984 and 1996 and found that women facing the strongest disincentives were more than 2 percentage points less likely to work after the expansions.

TL;DR: In this article, the potential advantages and disadvantages of capital tax competition are discussed, and tax competition may introduce, mitigate, or exacerbate inefficiencies in both the private sector and the public sector.

TL;DR: This paper examined whether decentralization increases the responsiveness of public investment to local needs using a unique database from Bolivia and found that investment patterns in human capital and social services changed significantly after decentralization.

TL;DR: In this paper, a micro-econometric evaluation of the relation between life satisfaction and income distribution, using a balanced panel survey of the Russian population, Russian longitudinal monitoring survey (RLMS), running from 1994 to 2000, covering 4685 individuals.

TL;DR: In this article, the joint demand for vehicles and miles, using the Consumer Expenditure Survey, is estimated, showing that greater price responsiveness among low-income households enhances progressivity of gas or miles taxes across lower incomes, and mitigates regressivity across upper incomes.

TL;DR: The authors argue that traditional quantity-based measures of incidence are only appropriate under a very restrictive "time-consistent" model of consumption of sin goods, where excise taxes on cigarettes serve a self-control function that is valued by smokers who would like to quit but cannot.

TL;DR: The authors disentangles the disruption effects of moves from changes in SQ and identifies the negative externality movers impose on other students, and shows that student turnover is associated with a substantial cost for movers and non-movers alike.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether competition led to better outcomes for patients, as measured by death rates after treatment following heart attacks, using data that until 1999 was not publicly available in any form on hospital level death rates, and they found that the relationship between competition and quality of care appears to be negative.

TL;DR: This article found that the corporate tax rate is insulated from a country's revenue needs: across countries, there is no association of the expenditure-GDP ratio with the corporate statutory rate and only weak evidence of a positive association with the average rate.

TL;DR: This article investigated whether government transfer programs displace or "crowd out" private support, focusing on a large increase in state old age pensions in South Africa and found that each rand of public pension income to the elderly leads to a 0.25-0.30 rand reduction in private transfers from children living away from home.

TL;DR: The authors found that state and local revenue efforts initially are unaffected by Title I changes, but that local governments substantially and significantly crowd out changes in Title I within in a 3-year period.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present new evidence about privatisation processes and their determinants from a panel of 34 countries over the 1977-99 period, and show that privatisation takes place typically in wealthy and democratic countries, endowed with deep and liquid stock markets, and is affected by the governing political majority and public sector budget constraints.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study corporate income taxation when firms operating in multiple jurisdictions can shift income using tax planning strategies and show that income shifting has pronounced effects on provincial tax bases.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the effect of budget rules on the use of creative accounting and found that the probability of detecting creative accounting depends on the size and the transparency of the budget.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a new model of altruism called impact philanthropy, where a philanthropist is someone who wants to personally "make a difference." While that motive is straightforward, its logical implications are significantly different from other models of philanthropy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that if central enforcement capacity is endogenous, inter-district competition may itself erode the center's ability to channel competition in welfare-enhancing directions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how characteristics of the utilities taking bribes and the firms paying bribes affect corruption in the sector and found that bribe takers (utility employees) are more likely to take bribes in countries with greater constraints on utility capacity, lower levels of competition in the utility sector, and where utilities are state-owned.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of indirect taxes on FDI by American multinational firms, using affiliate-level data that permit the introduction of controls for parent companies and affiliate industries.

TL;DR: In this article, a non-linear relationship between private transfer receipts and income, in the form of a spline, was investigated in the Philippines, which has a much smaller public sector than the United States.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared two different governance modes, namely, elections and power sharing, and found that elections affect little on the size of revenue but significantly shift the distribution of taxation from individuals to enterprises if possible.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of competition on the public schools using data on the results of 28,000 ninth graders were analyzed and the hypothesis that school results in public schools improve due to competition was supported.

TL;DR: In this article, a structural life cycle model of retirement and wealth attributes retirement peaks at both ages 62 and 65 to Social Security rules and wide heterogeneity in time preferences, and suggests that those with high discount rates often retire at 62 and those with low discount rates to retire at 65.

TL;DR: The authors examined the link between food insecurity and public assistance and found that a 10 percentage point cut in the fraction of the population that receives public assistance increases the probability that vulnerable households experience food deprivation.

TL;DR: In this article, a model of start-up finance with double moral hazard is proposed and the authors find that the market equilibrium is biased towards inefficiently low entrepreneurial effort and venture capital support.