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A common justification for HOPE-style merit-aid programs is to promote and reward academic achievement, thereby inducing greater investments in human capital. However, grade-based eligibility and retention rules encourage other behavioral responses. Using the longitudinal records of all...
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view of Marxian theory. The original Marxian view on distributive justice is very far from crude egalitarianism. Marx and … follows that According to Marx income inequality based on different level of education are justifiable, but income inequality … education still persist, although they were at least in Czechoslovakia significantly reduced. In both Czechoslovakia and Poland …
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political impact channels. It concentrates on the economic channel, the reasoning of which is rooted in fiscal federalism theory …
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Many local public goods are provided by coalitions and some of them have network effects. Namely, people prefer to consume a public good in a coalition with more members. This paper adopts the Drèze and Greenberg (1980) type utility function where players have preferences over goods as well as...
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In this paper, we develop a simple theoretical model in order to explain how politicians choose between progressive and regressive tax schemes that serve to afford some local service production costs. It consists of a bipartisan model in which each party’s preferences are lexicographic, giving...
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Looking at data from HUD’s low income housing tax credit database from 1987 to 2001, we examine how the US tax credit program has concentrated poverty in neighborhoods by offering advantages to developing low income housing projects in low income census tracts. We then use a simple Cellular...
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This paper is the first of its kind to study utility interdependence in marriage using information on subjective well …
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This paper empirically examines the life-time joint decision problem of marriage, childbearing, and labor force … generally insignificant. Utility gains and losses from marriage are significantly negative if one leaves out financial … of marriage and two children as a typical family unit is negative for women in the labor force. …
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A long-term relationship such as marriage will not operate efficiently without sanctions for misconduct, of which …
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recognition between men and women that provides a microfoundation for the institution of marriage. In the model, men and women …. As a socially sanctioned commitment device among partners, the institution of marriage reduces this risk by restraining … societal, economic, and technological changes in their effects on marriage patterns. A combination of factors is argued to …
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