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This paper builds a single model that can be used to show efficiency and distributional effects of eight different … approaches can be designed to have the same efficiency effects, even while they have different distributional effects. For … efficiency, enforcement capabilities, and political feasibility). The paper ends with a discussion of likely trade-offs among …
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Competitive exams are a standard method for selecting civil servants. Yet, evidence on the effectiveness of such approach is mixed, and lack of personnel data limits our understanding of the mechanisms underlying this varying success. We digitize personnel and financial data to study the impacts...
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This paper takes advantage of a unique policy change to examine how principals make decisions regarding teacher dismissal. In 2004, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) signed a new collective bargaining agreement that gave principals the flexibility to dismiss...
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We attempt to make inferences about the elasticity of the government's demand for specific weapons by analyzing the statistical relationship between quantity and cost revisions across the population of major weapon systems, using data contained in the Pentagon's Selected Acquisition Reports. The...
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whether it was a move toward economic efficiency using data from Massachusetts. Medicaid spending will fall, but only a modest … amount ($0.1 billion). The efficiency issue turns mainly on the treatment of health benefits from reduced smoking induced by … the settlement. We conclude that the settlement was a move towards economic efficiency …
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One of the benefits commonly claimed for expanded public health insurance is improved efficiency of medical care …
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This paper studies the market provision of a specific type of public good: radio and television broadcasts. Its main focus is to explore the ability of the market to provide broadcasting efficiently in a world in which broadcasters earn revenues by selling time to advertisers and advertisements...
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This paper describes an efficiency approach to the evaluation of policy changes. Rather than comparing the utility …
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This paper explores the trade-off between incentive effects and administrative costs associated with the implementation of various environmental tax instruments, with special reference to carbon taxes. In a simple model, we show under what conditions it is optimal to use input rather than...
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This paper measures for the first time the economic efficiency effects of the taxation of wireless services, which are … thereby suppress demand for service, imposing an efficiency loss on the economy of $0.53 for every $1 currently raised in … taxes. Prospective taxes will impose an efficiency loss of $0.72-$1.14 per additional dollar of tax revenue raised …
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