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作者：Kopczuk, Wojciech; Pop-Eleches, Cristian
作者单位：Columbia University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：In 2002 more than 18 million low-income individual taxpayers received the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). Despite its size, non-participation in this program is a concern and substantial effort is devoted by the IRS, local governments and many non-profits to address it. Using variation across states in the introduction of state electronic filing programs, we show that the introduction of electronic filing had a significant effect on participation in the EITC. Our results are robust to account...
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作者：Campante, Filipe R.; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.
作者单位：The World Bank; Harvard University
摘要：This paper analyzes the efficiency consequences of lobbying in a production economy with imperfect commitment. We first show that the Pareto efficiency result found for truthful equilibria of common agency games in static exchange economies no longer holds under these more general conditions. We construct a model of pressure groups where the set of efficient truthful common agency equilibria has measure zero. Second, we show that, under fairly general assumptions, the equilibrium will be biase...
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作者：Dellis, Arnaud
作者单位：University of Hawaii System; University of Hawaii Manoa
摘要：Delays in the adoption of reforms is an important question in political economics. This paper explores this issue in the context of a representative democracy where the government is a coalition and citizens observe neither the decision-making process, nor politicians' preferences for a reform. We show that a coalition member who favors a reform may nonetheless choose to veto its adoption (thus delaying it until after the next election) and let his coalition partners share the blame for the no...
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作者：Dehejia, Rajeev; DeLeire, Thomas; Luttmer, Erzo F. P.
作者单位：Harvard University; Tufts University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Michigan State University; Congressional Budget Office
摘要：This paper examines whether involvement with religious organizations can help insure consumption and happiness. Using data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX), we find that households who contribute to a religious organization are better able to insure their consumption against income shocks. Using the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), we find that individuals who attend religious services are better able to insure their happiness against income shocks. Overall, our res...
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作者：Oreopoulos, Philip
作者单位：Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR); University of Toronto
摘要：This paper uses compulsory schooling laws to evaluate high school dropout decisions. The main empirical result is that lifetime wealth increases by about 15% with an extra year of compulsory schooling. Students compelled to stay in school are also less likely to report being in poor health, unemployed, and unhappy. The main conclusion is that high school aversion alone is unlikely to explain why dropouts forgo substantial gains to lifetime wealth. The results are more consistent with the possi...
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作者：Bardhan, Pranab; Ghatak, Maitreesh; Karaivanov, Alexander
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Simon Fraser University
摘要：We study the effect of inequality in the distribution of endowments of private inputs (e.g., land, wealth) that are complementary in production with collective inputs (e.g., contribution to public goods such as irrigation and extraction from common-property resources) on efficiency in a class of collective action problems. We focus on characterizing the joint surplus maximizing level of inequality, making due distinction between contributors and non-contributors, in a framework that allows us ...
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作者：Pancs, Romans; Vriend, Nicolaas J.
作者单位：University of London; Stanford University
摘要：Schelling [Schelling, T.C., 1969. Models of Segregation. American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 59, 488-493, Schelling, T.C., 1971a. Dynamic Models of Segregation. Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 1 (2), 143-186, Schelling, T.C., 1971b. On the Ecology of Micromotives. The Public Interest, 25, 61-98, Schelling, T.C., 1978. Micromotives and Macrobehavior. New York: Norton.] presented a microeconomic model showing how an integrated city could unravel to a rather segregated city, notw...
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作者：Andreoni, James; Kanbur, Ravi
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作者：Coelli, Michael B.; Green, David A.; Warburton, William P.
作者单位：University of British Columbia; University of Melbourne; University of London; University College London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of British Columbia
摘要：We examine the impact of high school graduation on the probability individuals from welfare backgrounds use welfare themselves. Our data consist of administrative educational records for grade 12 students in a Canadian province linked with their own and their parents' welfare records. We address potential endogeneity problems by: 1) controlling for ability using past test scores; 2) using an instrument for graduation based on school principal fixed effects; and 3) using a Heckman-Singer type u...
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作者：Fuest, Clemens; Kolmar, Martin
作者单位：University of Cologne; University of St Gallen
摘要：We develop a two-region model where the decentralized provision of spillover goods and other public expenditures is financed by means of user fees. We show that a decentralized solution tends to be inefficient. If the regional spillover goods are substitutes, user fees tend to be inefficiently low, whereas they tend to be inefficiently high if the spillover goods are complements. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
