Showing papers in "Journal of Public Economics in 2023"

TL;DR: In this article , the authors examine how this "environmental justice" gap changed following the 2013 introduction of California's carbon market, the world's second largest and the most subjected to environmental justice critiques.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors provide a quantitative evaluation of the impact of Universal Basic Income (UBI) as an alternative to the existing system of means-tested transfers, and explore varying levels of UBI generosity, paired with different strategies to finance it.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explored the impact of one of the most prominent labor policies designed to provide higher wages for low-skilled workers (the minimum wage) on teenage and young adult arrests.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors show that redlining practices established in the wake of the Great Depression made lasting contributions to this inequity, and they also identify channels though which redline mapping influenced crime including increasing racial segregation and decreasing educational attainment.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated causes and consequences of patronage in Brazilian cities since the country's re-democratization, using five election cycles and comparing the hiring of winning and losing party members in close elections to causally estimate patronage.

TL;DR: The authors showed that exposure to high-ability peers entails positive learning externalities, but it also decreases students' academic self-concept because of lower ordinal ability rank, and as a result, the linear-in-means parameter identifies a composite (i.e., reduced form) effect.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors examine how politics relates to public sector absenteeism, a chronic and intractable public service delivery problem in many developing countries, and find that political interference routinely protects doctors from bureaucratic sanction, while personal connections between doctors and politicians and a lack of political competition are associated with more doctor absence.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors exploit a nationwide quota policy in Brazil that reserved a large share of vacancies in higher education for public-school students, and show that the reform increases movements from private to public schools by 31% and that movers come disproportionately from low-SES and low-quality private schools.

TL;DR: The authors show that Covid-19 illnesses and related work absences persistently reduce labor supply and suggest that workers with week-long Covid19 absences are 7 percentage points less likely to be in the labor force one year later compared to otherwise similar workers who do not miss a week of work for health reasons.

TL;DR: In this article , the effect of e-commerce on the geographic distribution of local sales tax revenues is examined using COVID-19 as a shock to online shopping and hand-collected high-frequency data.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors analyzed the labor market and aggregate effects of a carbon tax in a framework with pollution externalities and equilibrium unemployment, and highlighted the importance of considering endogenous technology adoption in assessments of the labour market and the aggregate effects.

TL;DR: In this article , the optimal nonlinear taxation of internationally mobile workers in general equilibrium was studied and it was shown that migration may lower the bottom tax rate but raise the top tax rate, challenging the classical migration threat argument.

TL;DR: The authors used a natural field experiment to examine the effectiveness of deterrence messages on tax compliance in the Dominican Republic and found that the largest firms, that pay 84% of all corporate income taxes and typically have been excluded from this type of intervention, are highly responsive to their information treatments.

TL;DR: In this article , the first half of the DRC increase (from 3.0 to 5.5 percent) was studied and the effects of these changes on individual claiming behavior and labor supply were investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper , tax enforcement policies have not only the power to foster tax capacity, but also to enhance the ability to pursue redistributive policies, and they show that stricter tax enforcement tips the balance in favor of higher marginal tax rates for middle and top incomes, while the poor benefit of a lower marginal tax rate.

TL;DR: In this article , the role of the social environment in shaping the accuracy of self-assessment is examined. But the authors focus on the role that social environment plays in the development of children.

TL;DR: In this article , the effects of cigarette taxes experienced as a teenager, which are arguably exogenous, on adult smoking participation and mortality were explored, showing that a one-dollar increase in tobacco taxes experienced at ages 14-17 was associated with an 8 percent reduction in adult smoking and a 4 percent reduction of mortality.

TL;DR: In this paper , the 2010 Supreme Court Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling provides an exogenous shock to corporate campaign spending, allowing corporations to spend on elections in 23 states which previously had spending bans.

TL;DR: In this paper , the causal effect of schooling on subsequent labor market outcomes was investigated by re-examining a British compulsory schooling reform that yields large-scale and quasi-experimental variation in schooling.

TL;DR: The authors found that minimum wage increases lead to increased employment for low-wage, retirement-age individuals using survey data linked to several decades of individual-level IRS and SSA data.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigate disguised pollution by industrial firms in China and find that sulfur dioxide readings increase by 10.8% in air pollution monitoring stations four hours after sunset in high factory density areas, controlling for station-year, date, and city-hour fixed effects.

TL;DR: In this paper , a tax reform from Pakistan that cuts the tax rate on five major industries of the country substantially was exploited to estimate the size and nature of VAT evasion in the treated industries, finding that it ranges from 31-46% of the potential revenue.

TL;DR: The authors analyzed voter behavior following India's 2016 'Demonetization' which unexpectedly made 86% of the currency-incirculation redundant overnight, and led to severe cash shortages and economic hardship in subsequent months.

TL;DR: This paper showed that the profitability of UK subsidiaries in low-tax countries increased after the reform compared to subsidiaries of non-UK multinationals in the same countries by an average of 2 percentage points.

TL;DR: The authors investigate redistribution via a smooth one-dimensional distribution mechanism that also allows for an increase or reversal of inequality and find that 85% of the inequality-increasing or reversing decisions favor the ingroup.

TL;DR: In this article , the impact of exposure to high prescribing primary care providers (PCP) on opioid use, opioid use disorder, and mental health was studied using electronic health records.

TL;DR: In the context of the Mexican war on drugs, the authors used violence-induced student migration as an exogenous source of variation in peer exposure to violence to estimate its effects on the academic performance of non-moving students in areas not directly affected by violence.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors study how potential political payoffs shape government competition for firms using a simple model of government competition and firm location choice, and propose an empirical approach of deriving lower bounds on political payoff with data on accepted incentives.