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The Impact of the Philadelphia Beverage Tax on Prices and Product Availability

Cawley, John - 2018

In recent years, numerous cities in the U.S. have enacted taxes on beverages to promote health and raise revenue. This paper examines the impact of Philadelphia's beverage tax, enacted in 2017, on the prices and availability of taxed beverages and untaxed beverages that may be substitutes for...

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Effects of Alcohol Price Policy on Youth

Grossman, Michael - 1993

positively related to this variable. Clearly, these are policy-relevant findings since price is a policy-manipulable variable …

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The Long Run Impacts of Merit Aid : Evidence from California’s Cal Grant

Bettinger, Eric - 2016

We examine the long-term impacts of California's state-based financial aid by tracking students' educational and labor force outcomes for up to 14 years after high school graduation. We identify program impacts by exploiting variation in eligibility rules using GPA and family income cutoffs that...

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The Price Effects of Cross-Market Hospital Mergers

Dafny, Leemore - 2016

belonging to both merging parties, as well as (one or more) \common insurers" with which price and network status is negotiated …) experience price increases of 7-10 percent relative to control hospitals, while hospitals gaining system members out …-of-state exhibit no statistically significant changes in price. The former group are likelier to share common customers and insurers …

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Assessing the Effects of the MFA/ATC from US and World Trade Data after Its Removal

Yao, Daqing - 2015

In this paper we assess the effects of the MFA/ATC using both world trade and US data after its removal. Previous literature assesses its effects while in operation. The trade data we analyze are consistent with theoretical predictions of more trade volumes, lower product prices, smaller effect...

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Can Online Learning Bend the Higher Education Cost Curve?

Deming, David J.; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2015

We examine whether online learning technologies have led to lower prices in higher education. Using data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, we show that online education is concentrated in large for-profit chains and less-selective public institutions. Colleges with a...

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Product and Labor Market Regulations, Production Prices, Wages and Productivity

Cette, Gilbert - 2014

This study is an attempt to evaluate the effects of product and labour market regulations on industry productivity through their various impacts on changes in production prices and wages. In a first stage, the estimation of a regression equation on an industry*country panel, with controls for...

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Detection and Impact of Industrial Subsidies : The Case of World Shipbuilding

Kalouptsidi, Myrto - 2014

This paper provides a model-based empirical strategy to, (i) detect the presence and gauge the magnitude of government subsidies and (ii) quantify their impact on production reallocation across countries, industry prices, costs and consumer surplus. I construct and estimate an industry model...

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Relaxing Occupational Licensing Requirements : Analyzing Wages and Prices for a Medical Service

Kleiner, Morris M. - 2014

analysis of insurance claims data shows that the more rigid regulations increase the price of a well-child medical exam by 3 to …

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The Narrow Channel of Quantitative Easing : Evidence from YCC Down Under

Lucca, David O.; Wright, Jonathan H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Australia purchased most of the outstanding amount of the targeted government bond, and its yield dislocated from other …

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