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• The market-level effects of charter schools on student outcomes: A national analysis of school districts AI翻译
  作者：Chen, Feng; Harris, Douglas N.
  作者单位：Liaoning University; Tulane University
  摘要：We study the total, market-level effects of charter schools, and their mechanisms, on a national level and across multiple outcomes. Using a generalized difference-in-differences method, we find that increasing the charter market share by 10 percentage points increases math and ELA elementary/middle test scores of the entire geographic district in which they locate by 0.01 standard deviations and increases the high school graduation rate by 1-2 percentage points. The effects are concentrated i...
• Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition: Evidence from representative experiments AI翻译
  作者：Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger
  作者单位：Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Technical University of Munich; IZA Institute Labor Economics; University of Munich; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Stanford University; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
  摘要：Higher education finance depends on the public's preferences for charging tuition, which may be partly based on beliefs and awareness about the university earnings premium. To test whether public support for tuition depends on earnings information, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of the German electorate (N > 15,000). The electorate is divided, with a plurality opposing tuition. Providing information on the university earnings premium raises support for tuition by 7 perc...
• Pass-through of subsidies to prices under limited competition: Evidence from Canada's Nutrition North program AI翻译
  作者：Galloway, Tracey; Li, Nicholas
  作者单位：University of Toronto; Toronto Metropolitan University
  摘要：We study the pass-through of Canada's Nutrition North food subsidy in remote, mainly Indigenous communities with limited competition. Reforms to the program in 2016 and 2019 provide exogenous changes in retailer marginal costs and we show that on average, retail prices were lowered by 67 cents for every additional dollar of subsidy, well below the full pass-through expected under perfect competition. We can precisely characterize the competitive environment for each community, which is typical...
• Reservations and the politics of fear AI翻译
  作者：Anderson, Siwan; Francois, Patrick
  摘要：Reserving political office for members of a specific, usually disadvantaged, group is a common form of political quota in many parts of the world. This has been shown to improve distributional access in favor of reserved groups, but often conjectured (and shown in some cases) to come at the cost of governance quality. We develop a theoretical model to demonstrate that a political quota can, in contrast, improve governance if it weakens a village leader's hold on power, making them more account...
• Estimating labor supply responses to Danish tax reforms AI翻译
  作者：Sigaard, Hans Schytte
  作者单位：Aarhus University
  摘要：This paper estimates the elasticity of labor supply at the intensive margin by applying the latest estimation strategies from the elasticity of taxable income literature to administrative register data on performed hours of work. Performed hours of work are contract hours plus paid overtime, minus paid absence, vacation, and holiday leave. I estimate elasticities of labor supply at the intensive margin (ELS), labor income (ELI), and taxable income (ETI) of 0.08, 0.06, and 0.1. The results show...
• Provider turf wars and Medicare payment rules AI翻译
  作者：Chen, Alice J.; Munnich, Elizabeth L.; Parente, Stephen T.; Richards, Michael R.
  作者单位：University of Southern California; University of Louisville; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Baylor University; University of Southern California
  摘要：Barriers to entry and scope of work restrictions are common features of US labor markets, especially within healthcare industries. However, concerns over access and costs of care have encouraged some deregulation. We empirically explore relaxed occupational rules of anesthesia care whereby physician -trained anesthesiologists and certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) perform overlapping ser-vices but often engage in joint production. After CRNAs were granted practice independence, we...
• Encouragement and distortionary effects of conditional cash transfers AI翻译
  作者：Bryan, Gharad; Chowdhury, Shyamal; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; Morten, Melanie; Smits, Joeri
  作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Sydney; Yale University; Deakin University; Stanford University; Harvard University
  摘要：Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs aim to reduce poverty or advance social goals by encouraging desirable behavior that recipients under-invest in. An unintended consequence of conditionality may be the distortion of recipients' behavior in ways that lower welfare. We first illustrate a range of potential distortions arising from CCT programs around the world. We then show that in the simple case where a CCT causes low return participants to select into a behavior, and social returns and...
• Anti-corruption campaign, political connections, and court bias: Evidence from Chinese corporate lawsuits AI翻译
  作者：Zhang, Peng
  作者单位：The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
  摘要：This paper establishes the presence of political corruption in court and identifies a novel channel-interfering with court decisions-through which local corrupt politicians provide political favors for politically connected firms. Using a unique data set of 11,238 commercial lawsuits involving Chinese listed firms, we examine how China's recent anti-corruption campaign, one of whose goals is to combat political interference in the courts, affects court advantages of politically connected firms...
• The consequences of the Swedish rent control system on labor income: Evidence from a randomized apartment lottery AI翻译
  作者：Ost, Cecilia Enstrom; Johansson, Per
  作者单位：Uppsala University; Uppsala University; Tsinghua University
  摘要：Using a unique randomized rental apartment lottery in Stockholm metropolitan statistical area, this paper analyses behavioral effects on individuals receiving a rent-controlled contract in the Swedish rent control program. The result shows that receiving a rent-controlled contract reduces the annual labor income by 13 to 20 percent and employment by 8 to 13 percent. To some extent, these effects can be explained by an increased propensity to enter higher education.(c) 2023 The Authors. Publish...
• Progressive consumption taxes AI翻译
  作者：da Costa, Carlos E.; Santos, Marcelo R.
  作者单位：Insper; University of Sussex
  摘要：Whether consumption or labor income is progressively taxed is irrelevant to household choices and wel-fare in a static setting. Add dynamics to the problem and these two forms of progressivity have markedly different implications for how earnings vary along the life cycle: in a stylized life-cycle model, the pro-gressive income tax reduces Frisch elasticities of labor supply whereas the progressive consumption tax reduces the elasticity of inter-temporal substitution. We explore the consequenc...