Showing papers in "Journal of Public Economics in 2016"

TL;DR: The authors investigate the role of homophily in the diffusion of political information in social networks and develop a model predicting disproportionate exposure to like-minded information and that larger groups have more connections and are exposed to more information.

TL;DR: This paper found that immigration generates a sizable causal increase in votes for the center-right coalition, which has a political platform less favorable to immigrants, and that the relationship between immigration and electoral gains percolates to mayoral election at the municipality level.

TL;DR: This paper measured consumers' willingness to pay for fuel economy using a novel identification strategy and high quality micro-data from wholesale used car auctions and found that used automobile prices move one for one with changes in present discounted future fuel costs, which implies that consumers fully value fuel economy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of the U.S. federal R&D tax credit between 1981-1991 using confidential IRS data from corporate tax returns and found that firms respond to user cost changes largely by increasing their qualified spending.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of psychic stress generated by the possibility of breaking social norms in the tax compliance context was analyzed, and the results of their laboratory experiments provided empirical evidence of a positive correlation between psychic stress and tax compliance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the large investments over the past decade have led to substantial improvements in input-based measures of school quality, but only a modest reduction in inefficiency as measured by teacher absence.

TL;DR: In a rare effort to internalize congestion costs, London recently instituted charges for traveling by car to the central city during peak hours as mentioned in this paper, which generated a substantial reduction in both the number of accidents and in the accident rate.

TL;DR: This article analyzed the impact of a balanced budget rule that requires that legislators do not run deficits in the political economy model of Battaglini and Coate (2008) and found that the rule leads to a gradual reduction in the level of public debt.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the link between corruption and social capital (measured as trust) using data from a lab experiment, where subjects played either a harassment bribery game or a strategically identical but differently framed ultimatum game, followed by a trust game.

TL;DR: The authors used a difference-in-differences design for unauthorized immigrants near the criteria cutoffs for DACA eligibility and found that DACA increases the likelihood of working by increasing labor force participation and decreasing the unemployment rate for DACA-eligible immigrants.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of induced positive and negative emotions on cooperation and sanctioning behavior in a one-shot voluntary contributions mechanism game, where personal and social interests are at odds, were investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, the causal effect of local representation in a closed-list proportional representation system where individual candidates have no clear electoral incentive to favor their hometowns was investigated using data from Norwegian regional governments.

TL;DR: This paper found that a large proportion of both high and low-payoff voters are willing to vote contrary to their self-interest in favor of groups that exert proportionately more effort.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors exploit a feature of teacher labour markets to determine the impact of teacher wages and find that teachers respond to pay and a ten percent shock to the wage gap between local labour market and teacher wages results in an average loss of around 2% in average school performance in the key exams taken at the end of compulsory schooling in England.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors exploit a comprehensive restructuring of the early retirement system in Norway in 2011 to examine labor supply responses to increases in work incentives and actuarially neutral reductions in the age of first access to pension benefits.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of the charitable contribution tax deduction on charities' donation revenue from charities' tax filings was investigated, showing that a one percent increase in the tax cost of giving causes charitable receipts to fall by about four percent, an effect three times larger the consensus in the literature.

TL;DR: This paper examined transfers over a span of 17 years and found substantial changes in recipiency over time and a strong negative correlation between transfers and transitory income, and they also found that events such as job loss and divorce are strong predictors of parental transfers and typically associated with larger transfers than income alone might predict.

TL;DR: This paper described a field experiment in which students were provided with free cellular phones and daily information about the link between human capital and future outcomes via text message in one treatment and minutes to talk and text as an incentive in a second treatment.

TL;DR: In this article, a model of conformism in social networks that incorporates both peer effects and self-selection is presented, and it is shown that conformism has positive social value and that social welfare can be bounded by network polarization and connectivity measures.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the achievement effects of nearly 1400 capital campaigns initiated and financed by local school districts, comparing districts where school capital bonds were either narrowly approved or defeated by district voters.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether the birthplaces of Italian members of Parliament are favored in the allocation of central government transfers and found that municipal governments of legislators' birth towns receive larger transfers per capita.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effect of the generosity of the contract in the Medicare Advantage (MA) program, through which the federal government contracts with private insurers to coordinate and finance health care for 17 million Medicare recipients and found that the additional reimbursement leads more private firms to enter this market and to an increase in the share of Medicare recipients enrolled in MA plans.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study information conditions under which individuals are willing to delegate their sanctioning power to a central authority, and they find that the relative popularity of centralized sanctioning crucially depends on the interaction between the observability of the cooperation of others and the absence of punishment targeted at cooperative individuals.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors empirically estimate the magnitude of these effects and show that the abolishment of repatriation taxes in Japan and in the U.K. in 2009 has increased the number of acquisitions abroad by Japanese and British firms by 16.1% and 1.6%, respectively.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the long-run toll taken by a large-scale technological disaster on welfare, well-being and mental health, and estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in radioactive fallout to respondents of a nationally representative survey in Ukraine according to their place of residence.

TL;DR: This paper explored the impact of self-serving bias on the supply and demand for redistribution and found that successful participants are more likely to attribute their success to their effort rather than luck, and they opt for less redistribution.

TL;DR: This paper showed that tax elasticities are extremely sensitive to a particular policy instrument: the level of tax enforcement, which can lead to misleading conclusions when tax authorities have another policy instrument that could set the tax elasticity itself at its optimal level.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study cognitive performance in a high-stakes competitive environment and find that the evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that psychological elements affect cognitive performance, in the face of experience, competition, and high stakes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the properties of plurality and approval voting when a majority gets divided by information imperfections, and they found that the majority faces two challenges: aggregating information to select the best majority candidate and coordinating to defeat the minority candidate.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the optimal design of integrated education finance and tax systems and find that an integrated education and tax system in which the government provides education loans to young individuals coupled with income-contingent repayment can always be designed in a Pareto optimal way.