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Showing papers in "Journal of Public Economics in 2019"


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the impacts across U.S. household income groups of carbon taxes of various designs and find that the distributional impacts depend on the nature of revenue-recycling and the treatment of transfer income.

111 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a theoretical model of privacy in which data collection requires consumers' consent and consumers are fully aware of the consequences of such consent Nonetheless, excessive collection of personal information arises in the monopoly market equilibrium which results in excessive loss of privacy compared to the social optimum.

78 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors used longitudinal data for the period 1968-2005 for a sample of male household heads to determine the prevalence of disability during the working years and examine how the extent of disability affects a range of outcomes, including earnings, income, and consumption.

73 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the minimum wage's effects on low-skilled individuals' employment and income trajectories following the Great Recession were analyzed using the 2008 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation.

72 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the causal effect of police on crime was investigated using a natural experiment, and the results highlight that fiscal support to local governments for crime prevention may offer large returns, especially during bad macroeconomic times.

64 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby gap between highly educated (high-earning) and less-educated (lowearning).

62 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors exploit the exogeneity of weather conditions to evaluate renewable energy subsidies in Germany and Spain in terms of their short-run direct program costs for reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

61 citations


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TL;DR: Farre acknowledges the financial support by Fundacion Ramon Areces (CISP15A33179), the Government of Catalonia (grant SGR2014-325), and the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Grant ECO2014-59959-P-P) as mentioned in this paper.

58 citations


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Eric Ohrn1
TL;DR: Using a modified difference-in-differences framework, the authors estimates the effects of state adoption of federal accelerated depreciation policies on the U.S. manufacturing sector and finds that these policies have large and significant effects on capital investment.

51 citations


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TL;DR: The authors proposed a theoretical model of relative comparisons, which can be downward or upward in the distribution of income, and calibrating the approach to a new data-set on national poverty lines, the Gini-adjusted national mean emerges as the relevant comparison income.

45 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study how close personal contact with minorities affects in-group and out-group trust in a field experiment in the armed forces and conclude that social integration involving personal contact can reduce negative effects of ethnic diversity on trust.

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TL;DR: The authors assesses the intangible impact of the London 2012 Olympics, using a novel panel of 26,000 residents in London, Paris, and Berlin during the summers of 2011, 2012, and 2013, finding that hosting the Olympics increases subjective well-being of the host city's residents during the event, particularly around the times of the opening and closing ceremonies.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed how the legalization of same-sex marriage in the U.S. affected same sex couples in the labor market by using data from the American Community Survey.

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TL;DR: In this article, the effectiveness of double preference voting conditioned on gender, coupled with gender quotas on candidate lists, was studied in the 2012 Italian municipal elections and it was found that the share of female councillors rose by 18 percentage points.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that information-on-request treaties with tax havens reduce bank deposits in tax havens by 27.5% and also deposits from tax havens in high tax countries decline after such treaties are signed, giving authorities a second angle to detect tax evasion.

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TL;DR: The authors used a large panel dataset on worldwide operations of multinational firms and found that multinationals redirect profits into subsidiaries just above the tax threshold and change incorporation patterns to place fewer subsidiaries below and more above the threshold.

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TL;DR: This paper studied the mechanisms behind the responses of entrepreneurs to size-dependent tax regulation and found that the large observed sales response is caused by the compliance costs of VAT rather than the level of the VAT rate.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors exploit quasi-random variation in the allocation of temporary financial assistance to eligible individuals and families that have experienced an economic shock to determine the impact of temporary assistance on crime.

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TL;DR: This paper studied the intertemporal crowding between two fundraising campaigns for the same charitable organization by manipulating donors' beliefs about the likelihood of future campaigns in two subsequent field experiments and found that initial giving is decreasing in the likelihood for a future campaign while subsequent giving increases in initial giving.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the impact of taxes on the international location of targets in MA (i.e., the acquisition is domestic or cross-border; and ii) the acquirer's country has a worldwide or territorial tax system.

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TL;DR: In this article, tax-sparing provisions are included in many bilateral tax treaties to prevent host country tax incentives being nullified by residence country taxation, which is consistent with tax sparing being an important determinant of FDI in developing countries for multinational corporations from both worldwide and territorial home countries.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the effect of moving to a region with more fragmented care delivery and found that 60% of regional variation in care fragmentation is independent of patients' individual demand for care.

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TL;DR: This paper found little evidence that marginal Pell eligibility affects whether or where students enroll in college, and found that students sort into colleges with 11.6 cents higher tuition per dollar of Pell aid, although other measures of college quality do not significantly improve over the counterfactual.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the impact of a tax reform at the store level on the posted retail price of six major brands of spirits, using a difference-in-differences method.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use theoretical and numerical economic equilibrium models to examine optimal renewable energy (RE) support policies for wind and solar resources in the presence of a carbon externality associated with the use of fossil fuels.

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TL;DR: The authors found that an additional $100 in TANF maximum monthly benefits is associated with a 5-8% increase in wages, but no significant change in the probability of employment.

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TL;DR: It is suggested that time preferences evolve substantially during this period, with younger children displaying more impatience than older children, and black children, relative to white or Hispanic children, are more impatient.

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TL;DR: This article found that low-rated teachers saw increases in their students' math and English test scores with the release of the ratings, while high-rated teacher saw little to no change in students' tests.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors employ a regression discontinuity (RD) design, exploiting the income threshold for receiving Marketplace subsidies in states that did not expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, to quantify the effect of subsidized health insurance on rent and mortgage delinquency.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors set up a theoretical model of multinational firm behavior in which they allowed for corner solutions in the choice of the optimal transfer price due to insufficient profits or losses of affiliates.