Journal of Public Economics

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• Disincentive effects of unemployment benefits and the role of caseworkers AI翻译
  作者：Schmieder, Johannes F.; Trenkle, Simon
  作者单位：Boston University; National Bureau of Economic Research; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
  摘要：A large literature has documented that the unemployment duration of unemployment insurance (UI) recipients increases with the generosity of the UI system. This has been interpreted as the disincentive effect of UI benefits; however, unemployed workers typically also have caseworkers assigned who are monitoring and assisting the job search efforts. These caseworkers may respond to differences in UI eligibility by shifting resources (financial or time) between unemployed individuals in order to ...
• Students' effort and educational achievement: Using the timing of the World Cup to vary the value of leisure AI翻译
  作者：Metcalfe, Robert; Burgess, Simon; Proud, Steven
  作者单位：Boston University; University of Bristol
  摘要：We study the effect of a sharp, exogenous, and repeated change in the value of leisure on educational achievement, arising from the overlap of major international football tournaments with high-stakes tests. Using administrative data covering almost all students in England, we find a significant negative average effect of the tournament on exam performance. The odds of reaching the achievement benchmark fall by 12% on average, considerably more for students likely to be interested in football....
• 35 years of reforms: A panel analysis of the incidence of, and employee and employer responses to, social security contributions in the UK AI翻译
  作者：Adam, Stuart; Phillips, David; Roantree, Barra
  作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of London; University College London
  摘要：We examine the effects of employee and employer social security contributions (SSCs) on labor cost, hours of work, and labor cost per hour, using a long running panel dataset that allows us to exploit 35 years of policy reforms in the United Kingdom. We find that reductions in marginal rates of employee - but not employer - SSCs have positive effects on labor cost that operate through hours of work, while labor cost falls much more when average employer SSCs rates are reduced than when average...
• Differential mortality and the progressivity of social security AI翻译
  作者：Bagchi, Shantanu
  作者单位：University System of Maryland; Towson University
  摘要：There is a well-established negative correlation between earnings and mortality risk. Using a calibrated general-equilibrium macroeconomic model, this paper examines how this correlation interacts with the welfare implications of Social Security's benefit-earnings rule. My primary findings suggest that the welfare ranking of alternative benefit-earnings rules is somewhat sensitive to differential mortality. Due to their relatively high mortality risk, households with unfavorable earnings histo...
• Tax sparing agreements, territorial tax reforms, and foreign direct investment AI翻译
  作者：Azemar, Celine; Dharmapala, Dhammika
  作者单位：University of Glasgow; University of Chicago
  摘要：The governments of many developing countries seek to attract inbound foreign direct investment (FDI) through the use of tax incentives for multinational corporations (MNCs). The effectiveness of these tax incentives depends crucially on MNCs' residence country tax regime, especially where the residence country imposes worldwide taxation on foreign income. Tax sparing provisions are included in many bilateral tax treaties to prevent host country tax incentives being nullified by residence count...
• Heterogeneity in the tax pass-through to spirit retail prices: Evidence from Belgium AI翻译
  作者：Hindriks, Jean; Serse, Valerio
  作者单位：Universite Catholique Louvain
  摘要：On 1st November 2015, the Belgian government increased the excise tax on alcoholic beverages. For spirits with 40% of alcohol and bottle size of 70 cl, this tax change is equivalent to an amount of 2,43 (sic) per bottle of spirits. This paper studies the impact of this tax reform at the store level on the (posted) retail price of six major brands of spirits, using a difference-in-differences method. The estimation is based on a balanced panel of scanner data from a major supermarket chain (wit...
• Second-best mechanisms for land assembly and hold-out problems AI翻译
  作者：Grossman, Zachary; Pincus, Jonathan; Shapiro, Perry; Yengin, Duygu
  作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University; University of Adelaide; University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara
  摘要：Land can be inefficiently allocated when attempts to assemble separately-owned parcels are frustrated by holdouts. Eminent domain can be used neither to gauge efficiency nor to determine adequate compensation. We characterize the least-inefficient class of direct mechanisms that are incentive compatible, self-financing, and protect the property-rights of participants. The second-best mechanisms, which we call Strong Pareto (SP), utilize a second-price auction among interested buyers, with a re...
• Trust, ethnic diversity, and personal contact: A field experiment AI翻译
  作者：Finseraas, Henning; Hanson, Torbjorn; Johnsen, Ashild A.; Kotsadam, Andreas; Torsvik, Gaute
  作者单位：Norwegian Defence Research Establishment; Norwegian University of Life Sciences; University of Oslo
  摘要：We study how close personal contact with minorities affects in-group and out-group trust in a field experiment in the armed forces. Soldiers are randomly assigned to rooms with or without ethnic minorities. At the end of the recruit period, we measure trust by using a trust game. Results indicate that close personal contact with minorities increases trust towards a generic immigrant. We replicate the result that individuals coming from more ethnically diverse areas trust minorities less, but r...
• Not whether, but where? Pell grants and college choices AI翻译
  作者：Carruthers, Celeste K.; Welch, Jilleah G.
  作者单位：University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville; University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville
  摘要：Pell grants are the largest financial aid vehicle in the United States, and yet, their role in shaping students' college choices is not clear. Drawing on the enrollment decisions of four cohorts of Tennessee high school graduates and quasi-experimental Pell eligibility derived from federal formulas, we find little evidence that marginal Pell eligibility affects whether or where students enroll in college. Inframarginal estimates suggest that students sort into colleges with 11.6 cents higher t...
• Screening with convex menus and optimal flow taxation AI翻译
  作者：Rothschild, Casey
  作者单位：Wellesley College
  摘要：This paper considers a family of screening problems in which the principal is constrained to offer only convex menus. Applications include: (i) optimal flow taxation when individuals can substitute consumption and leisure inter-temporally; (ii) optimal product design for a linear-pricing monopolist; (iii) non-exclusive cum-linearly-priced annuity markets. A modified version of a Myerson (1979)-Mirrlees (1971) direct mechanism in which standard incentive compatibility constraints are replaced b...