Showing papers in "Journal of Public Economics in 2011"

TL;DR: In this paper, a series of programs run by a company called OPOWER to send Home Energy Report letters to residential utility customers comparing their electricity use to that of their neighbors is evaluated.

TL;DR: The authors proposed a new methodology for multidimensional poverty measurement consisting of an identification method ρk that extends the traditional intersection and union approaches, and a class of poverty measures Mα.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of various types of education and training on the productivity of teachers in promoting student achievement were studied. But they did not find a consistent relationship between formal professional development training and teacher productivity, and they found no evidence that teachers' pre-service training or college entrance exam scores are related to productivity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the impact of receiving an NIH grant on subsequent publications and citations and show that the loss of a grant simply causes researchers to shift to another source of funding, consistent with a model in which the market for research funding is competitive.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the lower a subsidiary's corporate tax rate relative to other affiliates of the multinational group the higher is its level of intangible asset investment, even after controlling for subsidiary size and accounting for a dynamic intangible investment pattern.

TL;DR: Instead of increasing mothers' labor supply, the new subsidized child care mostly crowds out informal child care arrangements, suggesting a significant net cost of the child care subsidies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used panel data from the 16 larger states in India during the period 1967-2000 to study the effects of female political representation in the State Legislatures on public goods, policy and expenditure.

TL;DR: This paper found evidence that debt affects students' academic decisions during college and found that debt reduces students' donations to the institution in the years after they graduate and increases the likelihood that a graduate will default on a pledge made during her senior year.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of cooperativeness and impatience in the exploitation of common pool resources (CPRs) was examined by combining laboratory experiments with field data, and it was shown that fishermen who exhibit more cooperative and less impatient behavior in the laboratory should be less likely to exploit the CPR, which their findings confirm.

TL;DR: This paper assesses the contribution of medical costs to household bankruptcy risk by exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in publicly provided health insurance to suggest that out-of-pocket medical costs are pivotal in roughly 26% of personal bankruptcies among low-income households.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the rollout of the WIC program across counties to estimate the impact of the program on infant health and found that the implementation of WIC led to an increase in average birth weight and a decrease in the fraction of births that are classified as low birth weight.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that 75% of the charities' fundraising efforts are reduced after receiving government grants, and that this crowding out is due to reduced fundraising, rather than classic crowd out.

TL;DR: This paper used an estimation approach that is valid under relatively weak assumptions to measure the impact of State Enterprise Zone (ENTZ), Federal Empowerment Zone (EMPZ), and Federal Enterprise Community (ENTC) programs on local labor markets.

TL;DR: The authors found that any time the recipient spoke, giving increased, and that when only allocators could speak, choices were significantly more selfish than any other condition, even when they were silent.

TL;DR: This article investigated the distribution of children's time preferences along gender and racial lines and found that boys are more impatient than girls and black children are more antsy than white children, and that impatience has a direct correlation with behavior that is predictive of economic success.

TL;DR: This article examined the intensity of coverage of economic issues as a function of the underlying economic conditions and the political affiliation of the incumbent president, focusing on unemployment, inflation, the federal budget and the trade deficit.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a formal model of entrepreneurship in human development, which is based on the capabilities approach (CA), and show that entrepreneurship can be a human functioning and can contribute towards expanding the set of human capabilities through being both a resource and a process.

TL;DR: In this paper, the long-term effects and effect heterogeneity of start-up subsidies for the unemployed were investigated and it was shown that over 80% of the participants were integrated in the labor market and had relatively high labor income five years after start up, while participants were much more satisfied with their current occupational situation compared to previous jobs.

TL;DR: This paper analyzed whether alumni are more likely to donate and give larger amounts when they are solicited by someone with whom they have social ties, and found that social ties play a strong causal role in the decision to donate.

TL;DR: This article found that East Germans show consistently less solidarity than West Germans; there has been no convergence in the 20 years after the reunification and they hypothesize that this is due to complementarities involved in individual social behavior and the necessity to coordinate on social norms on the society level.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that individuals in the non-profit sector are significantly more likely to do unpaid overtime than those in the for profit sector, and they find no evidence of adjustment along either the extensive or intensive margins when individuals change sectors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that innovations in governance of social services are an effective way to improve outcomes such as attainment of universal primary education, and test this hypothesis to test the hypothesis.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present empirical evidence on the role of taxes in these relocation decisions and find that the additional tax due in the home country upon repatriation of foreign profits has a positive effect on the probability of relocation.

TL;DR: The effect of a large-scale policy change in the Austrian disability insurance program, which tightened eligibility criteria for men above a certain age, had important spillover effects into the unemployment and sickness insurance program.

TL;DR: The authors found that men's earnings volatility increased during the 1970s, but did not show a clear trend afterwards until a new upward trend appeared after 1998, and they advocated for transparent methods focusing on simple measures of dispersion in year-to-year earnings changes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present evidence from a natural field experiment designed to shed light on the efficacy of fundraising schemes in which donations are matched by a lead donor, and find that straight linear matching schemes raise the total donations received including the match value, but partially crowd out the actual donations given excluding the match.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of absolute versus relative income using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been studied and the importance of ''joy of winning'' has been shown to positively affect reward related brain areas.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the efficiency and distributional impacts of congestion pricing in Vickrey's (1969) dynamic bottleneck model of congestion, allowing for continuous distributions of values of time and schedule delay.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of a Chilean school reform that lengthened the school day from half to full-day shifts on the likelihood that adolescents engage in risky behaviors was analyzed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a dictator game experiment where the recipients are local charities that serve the poor and the donors are asked to decide how much to give to the charities and report their perceptions of recipient worthiness and racial composition.