Showing papers in "Journal of Public Economics in 2005"

TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper provided empirical evidence on the incentive role of personnel control in post-reform China by employing the turnover data of top provincial leaders in China between 1979 and 1995.

TL;DR: In this paper, an empirical analysis of the importance of comparison income for individual well-being or happiness is presented, where the authors use a self-reported measure of satisfaction with life as a measure of individual wellbeing.

TL;DR: This article examined ethnic diversity and local public goods in rural western Kenya and found that ethnic diversity is associated with lower primary school funding and worse school facilities, and there is suggestive evidence that it leads to poor water well maintenance.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the relationship between provincial government's fiscal incentives and provincial market development and found that stronger ex ante fiscal incentives, measured by the contractual marginal retention rate of the provincial government in its budgetary revenue, are associated with faster development of the non-state sector as well as more reforms in the state sector in the provincial economy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how individual preferences for redistribution depend on future income prospects and employ panel data to construct dobjectiveT measures of expected gains and losses from redistribution for different categories of individuals.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how tax policies in fact affect a country's growth rate, using cross-country data during 1970-1997 and find that statutory corporate tax rates are significantly negatively correlated with cross-sectional differences in average economic growth rates.

TL;DR: The authors examined the impact of an accountability policy implemented in the Chicago Public Schools in 1996-1997, using a panel of student-level, administrative data, and found that math and reading achievement increased sharply following the introduction of the accountability policy, in comparison to both prior achievement trends in the district and to changes experienced by other large, urban districts.

TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical characterization of the information structure in such programs and the interconnected behavior of the various players is presented, motivated by an econometric specification for explaining distributional outcomes.

TL;DR: The authors explored the impact of school choice on student outcomes in the context of open enrollment within the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and found that roughly half of the students opt out of their assigned high school to attend a different CPS school, and these students are much more likely than those who remain in their assigned schools to graduate.

TL;DR: This paper examined the relation between fiscal deficits and growth for a panel of 45 developing countries, and found evidence of a threshold effect at a level of the deficit around 1.5% of GDP.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects on accountability in government service delivery of decentralizing administration of an antipoverty program are studied, and the authors find that decentralizing the delivery system promotes cost-effectiveness and improves intra-regional targeting at low program scales.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a theoretical model which offers an explanation as to why, in some environments, different segments of society prove incapable of arriving at what all parties perceive to be an agreeable distribution of the burden of the necessary collective action, causing the relatively wealthy simply to self insure against the disaster while leaving the relatively poor to its mercy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a direct non-laboratory test of this implication using data on the nutritional intake of food stamp recipients, showing that caloric intake declines by 10 to 15 percent over the food stamp month, implying a significant preference for immediate consumption.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine corporate tax evasion in the context of the contractual relationship between the shareholders of a firm and a tax manager who possesses private information regarding the extent of legally permissible reductions in taxable income, and who may also undertake illegal tax evasion.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors model and empirically investigate underlying forces that promote governmental decentralization, or effective federalism, in the world over the last 25 years, and find that decentralization changes in ways predicted, in particular it increases with economic growth, country size, and population.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that, contrary to the current consensus, the standard revenue-neutral selective reform of trade taxes and VAT reduces welfare under plausible conditions, and that a VAT base broadening with a revenue neutral reduction in trade taxes may improve welfare.

TL;DR: In a public goods experiment with the opportunity to vote to expel members of a group, this article found that contributions rose to nearly 100% of endowments with significantly higher efficiency compared with a no-expulsion baseline.

TL;DR: In this article, the extent to which state spending is influenced by the spending of neighboring states is estimated by examining several different metrics of neighborliness in order to better identify the channels for interstate spillovers.

TL;DR: This article showed that even without any reputation information, there is a non-negligible amount of cooperation that is sensitive to the cooperation costs, regardless of the costs of providing information about a partner's immediate past action.

TL;DR: In this paper, the replacement level in the Swedish national sickness insurance, which replaces foregone earnings due to temporary illnesses, affects work absence behavior, and the effects of a major reform, whereby the replacement levels during the first 90 days in each absence spell was reduced, on work attendance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that raising barriers to entry is consistent with a deliberate government policy for raising tax revenue in developing countries, by generating market power and hence rents for the permitted entrants.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the effects of consumption and production externalities on capital accumulation and showed that the importance of consumption externalities depends upon the elasticity of labor supply.

TL;DR: This result can be explained by the presence of social incentives, but is also in line with recent studies showing that asymmetric information about the quality of the charity leads to increased contributions.

TL;DR: The authors used a new panel data set of Presbyterian Church (USA) congregations to regress both church-member donations and a church's community spending on a number of variables, including government welfare expenditures.

TL;DR: The authors used a panel of income tax returns spanning the two major U.S. tax reforms of the 1980s and a number of smaller tax law changes, and found that the elasticity of income reported on personal income tax return depends on the available deductions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop models of optimal linear and non-linear income taxation with endogenous human capital formation to explore optimal education subsidies, which ensure efficiency in human capital accumulation and thus play an important role in alleviating the tax distortions on learning induced by redistributive policies.

TL;DR: This article examined whether the abilities and specialty preferences of a medical school class affect a student's academic achievement in medical school and his choice of specialty, and found no evidence that peer effects are stronger for blacks, that peer groups are formed along racial lines, or that students with relatively low ability benefit more from their peers than students with high ability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine contributions to a public good when some donors do not know the true value of the good, and they show that donors predominantly choose to contribute sequentially, and that the resulting contributions are larger than those of the simultaneous-move game.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the results of laboratory experiments that examine whether third-party contributions crowd out private giving to charity, and they find that in the first frame, they see a level of crowding out that is close to zero, far less than other experimental studies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the causal effect of living in an overcrowded home on performance at school in France has been investigated and it was shown that children in large families perform much less well than children in small families.