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Tax salience : how requiring transparency affects the price of equality

Craig, Ashley C.; Sher, Itai - 2026

Less-salient taxes can ease the classic equality-efficiency trade-off by making people respond less to taxation. But deliberately obscuring taxes may be viewed as dishonest. This creates a three-way trade-off between equality, efficiency, and honesty. We analyze this trade-off in a simple...

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Navigating the Amazon : the incidence of digital service taxes

Langenmayr, Dominika; Muddasani, Rohit Reddy - 2026

Firms in the digital economy often pay little tax in the countries where their customers are based. In response, market countries have introduced digital service taxes on the revenue of these firms to indirectly tax their profits. We study the incidence of these taxes using data on Amazon, the...

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What happens in Paris, does not stay in Paris : trade fairs and search and matching frictions

Békés, Gábor; Molnár, Mátyás; Steinwender, Claudia - 2026

Search and matching frictions prevent firms from forming international trade linkages. Despite trade fairs being a common and often subsidized tool to overcome these frictions, we lack causal evidence on how they facilitate link formation. We exploit a unique feature of Hungarian firms'...

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Macro theory with measured expectations

Luetticke, Ralph; Roth, Christopher; Wiederholt, Mirko; … - 2026

The Lucas critique holds that policy evaluations based on historical correlations can fail because policy changes alter expectation formation. We develop a new approach to monetary policy evaluation that addresses this concern: we elicit expectations under alternative policy scenarios from...

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The smarter state? : artificial intelligence and modern state and local public finance

Agrawal, David R.; Fox, William F. - 2026

This paper examines how artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes subnational public finance, largely through familiar channels observed from prior technological change. Although some effects are novel, many issues surrounding the taxation of AI-related income and consumption parallel earlier...

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De-biasing or backlash? : confronting prejudice among police officers in India

Amaral, Sofia; Chaney, Kim; Kaiser, Victoria; Prakash, … - 2026

Police officers' discretionary handling of gender-based violence (GBV) complaints is a critical and largely neglected barrier to justice in developing countries. We collaborate with the Madhya Pradesh Police in India, the second largest state, to conduct a lab-in-the-field randomized experiment...

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Characterizing the file drawer : evidence from a meta-analysis of parent-interventions around the world

Bergman, Peter; Chowanajin, Nat - 2026

We conduct a meta-analysis of 82 randomized controlled trials across more than 20 countries to estimate the effects of low-cost, remote parental engagement interventions delivered through text messages, phone calls, and apps. We estimate a joint likelihood function that incorporates both written...

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Equilibrium effects in complementary markets : electric vehicle adoption and electricity pricing

Heid, Pascal; Remmy, Kevin; Reynaert, Mathias - 2026

Electric vehicles shift passenger transport from oil to electricity, linking vehicle adoption to hourly power-market conditions. We develop and estimate a joint equilibrium model of German vehicle demand and electricity supply in which driver-specific charging decisions map travel profiles and...

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Pricing job amenities : a practitioner's manual

Bell, Alex - 2026

This paper provides a practical framework for estimating compensating differentials in the presence of unobserved worker ability. The approach treats ability as a structured residual that shapes access to both wages and non-pay job attributes. Job choice is assumed to be governed by a single...

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Climate change in the classroom

Carattini, Stefano; Giustinelli, Pamela; Veronesi, Marcella - 2026

Knowledge gaps and biased beliefs concerning both climate change and climate policy represent major obstacles to the decarbonization process. Climate education may offer a scalable solution to address such obstacles. In the context of a national reform of the school curriculum in Italy, we...

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