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作者：Myers, Erica
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：This paper explores whether home buyers are attentive to energy costs. The cost-effectiveness of market-based pollution policies crucially depends on whether consumers are attentive to energy costs when purchasing energy-using durables. I exploit energy-cost variation from fuel-price changes in Massachusetts where there is significant overlap in the geographic and age distributions of oil-heated and gas-heated homes. The results strongly reject that home buyers are unresponsive to energy costs...
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作者：Jin, Ginger Zhe; Leslie, Phillip
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Ho, Ashwood, and Handan-Nader (forthcoming) replicates table VI of fin and Leslie (2003) but questions its research design. Robustness checks support our original conclusion-foodborne hospitalizations, as defined in JL, declined in Los Angeles County (LA) relative to the rest of California (CA) after LA adopted restaurant hygiene grade cards in 1998. More precisely, the decline in LA is pronounced against central and Northern CA, but insignificant when compared with the rest of Southern CA. On...
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作者：Pashchenko, Svetlana; Porapakkarm, Ponpoje
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
摘要：Individuals' medical spending has both necessary and discretionary components, which are not, however, separately observable. This paper studies ways to improve upon existing public health insurance policies by using a framework where both the discretionary and necessary components of medical spending are explicitly modeled. First, using a simple theoretical framework, the paper shows that the key to reducing discretionary medical spending is to introduce a trade-off between nonmedical and med...
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作者：Maffini, Giorgia; Xing, Jing; Devereux, Michael P.
作者单位：University of Oxford; Bocconi University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
摘要：Using UK corporation tax returns, we provide evidence on the effects of accelerated depreciation allowances on investment, exploiting exogenous changes in the qualifying thresholds for first-year depreciation allowances (FYAs) in 2004. The investment rate of qualifying companies increased by 2.1-2.5 percentage points relative to those that did not qualify. We exploit variation in the timing of lax payments to show that this effect is primarily due to the change in the cost of capital, rather t...
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作者：Parchet, Raphael
作者单位：Universita della Svizzera Italiana; Universita della Svizzera Italiana
摘要：The identification of strategic interactions among local governments is typically plagued by endogeneity problems. I exploit the fact that local jurisdictions located close to a state border have some neighbors in another state and instrument the tax rate of neighbor jurisdictions with the state-level tax rate of the neighboring state. I use this instrument to identify strategic personal income tax setting by local jurisdictions in Switzerland and find that tax rates are strategic substitutes....
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作者：Mittag, Nikolas
作者单位：Czech Academy of Sciences; Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences; Charles University Prague; Czech Academy of Sciences; Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences
摘要：Data linkage studies often document, but do not remedy, severe survey errors. To improve survey estimates despite restricted linked data access, this paper develops a convenient and general estimation method that combines public use data with conditional distribution parameters estimated from linked data. Analyses using linked SNAP data show that this method sharply improves estimates and consistently outperforms corrections that mainly rely on survey data. Yet, some univariate corrections per...
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作者：Angelucci, Manuela; Prina, Silvia; Royer, Heather; Samek, Anya
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Northeastern University; University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Southern California
摘要：Little is known about how peers influence the impact of incentives. We study how peers' actions and incentives can lead to peer spillover effects. Using a field experiment on snack choice in the school lunchroom (choice of grapes versus cookies), we randomize who receives incentives, the fraction of peers incentivized, and whether or not it can be observed that peers' choices are incentivized. We show that, while peers' actions of picking grapes have a positive spillover effect on children's t...
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作者：Barfort, Sebastian; Harmon, Nikolaj A.; Hjorth, Frederik; Olsen, Asmus Leth
作者单位：University of Copenhagen; University of Copenhagen
摘要：We study the role of self-selection into public service in sustaining honesty in the public sector Focusing on the world's least corrupt country, Denmark, we use a survey experiment to document strong self-selection of more honest individuals into public service. This result differs sharply from existing findings from more corrupt settings. Differences in pro-social versus pecuniary motivation appear central to the observed selection pattern. Dishonest individuals are more pecuniarily motivate...
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作者：Deshpande, Manasi; Li, Yue
作者单位：University of Chicago; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
摘要：We study the effect of application costs on the targeting of disability programs. We identify these effects using the closings of Social Security Administration field offices, which provide assistance with filing disability applications. Closings lead to a persistent 16 percent decline in the number of disability recipients in surrounding areas, with the largest effects for applicants with moderately severe conditions and low education levels. Disability applications fall by only 10 percent, i...
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作者：Banks, James; Blundell, Richard; Levell, Peter; Smith, James P.
作者单位：University of Manchester; University of London; University College London; RAND Corporation
摘要：This paper documents significantly steeper declines in nondurable expenditures at older ages in the United Kingdom compared to the United States, in spite of income paths being similar. Several possible causes are explored, including different employment paths, housing ownership and expenses, levels and paths of health status, number of household members, and out-of-pocket medical expenditures. Among all the potential explanations considered, those relating to health care differences in levels...
