Showing papers in "Journal of Public Economics in 2009"

TL;DR: This paper studied the 1991-2002 Sierra Leone civil war using nationally representative household data on conflict experiences, postwar economic outcomes, local politics and collective action, and found that individuals whose households directly experienced more intense war violence are robustly more likely to attend community meetings, more likely join local political and community groups, and more likely vote.

TL;DR: This article study the stock price reaction to news about corporate tax aggressiveness and find that, on average, a company's stock price declines when there is news about its involvement in tax shelters.

TL;DR: In this paper, a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model featuring a fraction of non-Ricardian agents is presented to estimate the effects of fiscal policy in the Euro area.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors combine and explore two new data sources, an original cross-national data set on particular types of decentralization and the results of a firm level survey conducted in 80 countries about firms' concrete experiences with bribery.

TL;DR: The authors examined the accuracy of corruption perceptions by comparing Indonesian villagers' reported perceptions about corruption in a road-building project in their village with a more objective measure of missing expenditures in the project.

TL;DR: The authors studied determinants of income inequality using a newly assembled panel of 16 countries over the entire twentieth century, focusing on three groups of income earners: the rich (P99-100),...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how forecasted policies change if firms can successfully evade taxes by conducting all business in cash, thereby avoiding any use of the financial sector and show that the forecasted tax policies are now much closer to those observed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that life satisfaction data can be used to value natural disasters and apply it to estimate and monetize utility losses caused by floods in 16 European countries between 1973 and 1998.

TL;DR: For example, this paper found that better-governed countries are much more likely than others to become tax havens, and that the range of sensible tax policy options is constrained by the quality of governance.

TL;DR: This article studied the effects of benefit cuts on recent retirement behavior and found that the mean retirement age of the affected cohorts has increased by about half as much as the increase in the normal retirement age.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the effect of a major education reform on intergenerational income mobility using a representative sample of males born between 1960 and 1966, using a differences-in-differences approach and exploits the fact that the reform was implemented gradually across the country during a six-year period.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted detailed surveys of community-maintained infrastructure projects in Northern Pakistan and found that while community-specific constraints do matter, their impact can be mitigated by better project design.

TL;DR: In this article, a model of equality of opportunity is proposed to capture the random factors whose impact on outcome should be even-handed for equality to be satisfied, including circumstances whose effect on outcomes should be compensated and effort which represents a legitimate source of inequality.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine cultural differences in individual decision-making in a corruption game and find that there is a greater variation in the propensity to punish corrupt behavior than in propensity to engage in corrupt behavior across cultures.

TL;DR: This paper evaluates the impacts of new housing developments funded with the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC), the largest federal project based housing program in the U.S., on the neighborhoods in which they are built.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop a tax competition framework in which some jurisdictions, called tax havens, are parasitic on the revenues of other countries, and demonstrate that the full or partial elimination of tax havens would improve welfare in non-haven countries, in part because countries would be induced to increase their tax rates, which they have set at inefficiently low levels in an attempt to attract mobile capital.

TL;DR: In this article, an event history study of the adoption of the income tax in 17 countries from western Europe, north America, Oceania and Japan between 1815 and 1939 is presented, finding evidence that spending pressures, reductions in tax collection costs and to a lesser extent social learning played a significant role for the adoption decision.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a theory of tolerance where endogenous lifestyles and exogenous traits are invested with symbolic value by people, and study the formation of values attached to various types of attributes and identify circumstances under which tolerance spontaneously arises.

TL;DR: In this article, the tax authority would be served by pre-announcing audit rates credibly and by emphasizing the previous period audit frequency in annual reporting of enforcement effort, and the effect of the type of post-audit information is conditional on whether the taxpayer is well informed of the audit rate prior to filing.

TL;DR: In this paper, a series of experiments in which subjects form groups using three different entry and exit rules was conducted in terms of group size, the level of public good provision, social efficiency, congestion and group stability.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the relative importance of educational reforms and gaming behavior in generating test score gains by threatened schools and find that sanction threats raise school spending on instructional technology, curricular development, and teacher training.

TL;DR: This paper showed that there is little evidence of a negative association of country size with either government size or openness, and therefore it does not seem likely that positive association between openness and government size arises due to the mediating role of country's size.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of demographic shocks and changes in the pension system on the macroeconomic performance of an advanced small open economy facing a given world interest rate were studied, and an overlapping-generations model which includes a realistic description of the mortality process was constructed.

TL;DR: The authors found that mandatory arrest laws actually increased intimate partner homicides and discussed two potential mechanisms for this increase in homicides: decreased reporting by victims and increased reprisal by abusers, and investigated validity of these hypotheses by examining the effect of Mandatory Arrest laws on different subgroups and by analyzing family homicides where the victim is less often responsible for reporting.

TL;DR: The authors analyzes price and quantity-based approaches to management of airport congestion, using a model where airlines are asymmetric and internalize congestion, where optimal congestion tolls are differentiated across carriers, and a uniformity requirement on airport charges distorts carrier flight choices.

TL;DR: The authors investigated if the association between family background and income in Sweden has changed for men born between 1932 and 1968, finding that the share of the variance in long-run income that is attributable to family background, the so-called brother correlation in income, has fallen by some 17% from 0.49 for the cohorts of brothers born in the early 1930s to below 0.32 for the cohort born around 1950.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a Swedish compulsory reform to test for the free-riding effect of boundary reforms and found an economically large and statistically significant free riding effect in Sweden.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors add a pre-play stage in which the investor receives a cheap-talk message from the allocator, observes the allocators previous decision, or both.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors re-visited the site of a large, World Bank-financed, rural development program in China, 10 years after it began and four years after disbursements ended.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors exploit information on the paternal and maternal surnames of heads and spouses in conjunction with the Spanish naming convention to identify the inter and intra generational family links of each household to others.