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Inaccurate Age and Sex Data in the Census PUMS Files: Evidence and Implications

Alexander, J. Trent; Davern, Michael; Stevenson, Betsey - CESifo - 2010

We discover and document errors in public use microdata samples ("PUMS files") of the 2000 Census, the 2003 …-2006 American Community Survey, and the 2004-2009 Current Population Survey. For women and men ages 65 and older, age- and sex …-specific population estimates generated from the PUMS files differ by as much as 15% from counts in published data tables. Moreover, an …

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Land, Men, Taxation - An Application to Pre-Modern China and Europe: Erik Jones' European Miracle Revisited

Blankart, Charles B. - CESifo - 2014

Eric Jones has found that excessive taxes were detrimental for pre-modern China’s economic growth whereas moderate taxes were conducive for Europe’s economic growth. This paper provides a political-economic answer to the question why these two tax systems came about. Taxation is only...

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A Microfoundation of Predator-Prey Dynamics

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2003

acquired by the representative organism in the short term determines the positive or negative population growth. Moving short …-run equilibria constitute the dynamics of the predator-prey relations that are characterized in numerical analysis. The population …

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Does Fertility Respond to Financial Incentives?

Laroque, Guy; Salanié, Bernard - CESifo - 2008

There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household level. We put forward an identification strategy that relies on the fact that variation of wages induces variation in benefits and tax credits among "comparable" households. We...

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On Welfare Frameworks and Catastrophic Climate Risks

Millner, Antony - CESifo - 2013

which population size changes. Drawing on recent work in population ethics I propose an alternative welfare framework with …

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On the Fiscal Strategies of Escaping Poverty-Environment Traps (and) Towards Sustainable Growth

Dao, Nguyen Than; Edenhofer, Ottmar - CESifo - 2014

An economy with clean and dirty intermediate inputs may fall into a trap characterized by low environmental quality and low life expectancy, while the others converge to opposite steady states. We propose new strategies towards sustainable growth. They include: (i) taxes (subsidies) imposed on...

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Uncertainty and Fiscal Policy in an Asymmetric Monetary Union

Hefeker, Carsten; Zimmer, Blandine - CESifo - 2008

The paper examines the monetary-fiscal interactions in a monetary union model with uncertainty due to imperfect central bank transparency. We first show that monetary uncertainty disciplines fiscal policymakers and thereby reduces taxes, average inflation and output distortions. However, as more...

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Taxation, Corruption and the Exchange Rate Regime

Hefeker, Carsten - CESifo - 2009

The paper analyzes the relation between institutional quality, such as corruption, in a country and its monetary regime. It is shown that a credibly fixed exchange rate to a low inflation country, like a currency board, can reduce corruption and improve the fiscal system. A monetary union,...

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Spend-and-tax: A Panel Data Investigation for the EU

Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe - CESifo - 2009

Using bootstrap panel analysis, allowing for cross-country correlation, without the need of pre-testing for unit roots, we study the causality between government spending and revenue for the EU in the period 1960-2006. We find spend-and-tax causality for Italy, France, Spain, Greece, and...

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Government Deficits in the European Union: An Analysis of Entry and Exit Dynamics

Bayar, Ali; Smeets, Bram - CESifo - 2009

The extent of government deficits and debt has been one of the most debated issues in recent years. However, much less has been contributed about their dynamics. Yet, the issue of entering into and exiting from excessive deficits is critical in the Economic and Monetary Union since the Stability...

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