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Is There a VA Advantage? Evidence from Dually Eligible Veterans

Chan, David C.; Card, David E.; Taylor, Lowell J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study public vs. private provision of health care for veterans aged 65 and older who may receive care provided by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and in private hospitals financed by Medicare. Utilizing the ambulance design of Doyle et al. (2015), we find that the VA reduces 28-day...

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Impacts of Basic Income on Health and Economic Well-Being : Evidence from the VA's Disability Compensation Program

Silver, David; Zhang, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study impacts of a cash transfer program with no means-test and no work restrictions: the US Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) Disability Compensation program. Our empirical strategy leverages quasi-random assignment of veterans claiming mental disorder disability to examiners who vary in...

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The Impact of Local Residential Land Use Restrictions on Land Values Across and Within Single Family Housing Markets

Gyourko, Joseph E.; Krimmel, Jacob - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We provide estimates of the impact of restrictive residential land use environments on the price of land across major American housing markets. Using micro data on vacant land purchased to develop single family housing, we implement a new empirical strategy for estimating so-called 'zoning...

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What Drives Land-Use Change in the United States? A National Analysis of Landowner Decisions

Lubowski, Ruben N. - 2007

Land-use changes involve important economic and environmental effects with implications for international trade, global climate change, wildlife, and other policy issues. We use an econometric model to identify factors driving land-use change in the United States between 1982 and 1997. We...

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Who (Actually) Gets the Farm? Intergenerational Farm Succession in the United States

Haws, Adrian; Just, David; Price, Joseph - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We link census records for millions of farm children to identify owner-operators of the family farm in adulthood, providing the first population-level evidence on intergenerational farm transfers. Using our panel of U.S. census data from 1900 to 1940, our analysis supports the primogeniture...

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Institutional Drift, Property Rights, and Economic Development : Evidence from Historical Treaties

Feir, Donna; Gillezeau, Rob; Jones, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

For nearly three centuries, Indigenous peoples within the borders of present-day Canada engaged in treaty-making with the British Crown and other European powers. These treaties regularly formed the colonial legal basis for access to Indigenous lands. However, treaties were not negotiated...

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Externalities in the Wildland - Urban Interface : Private Decisions, Collective Action, and Results from Wildfire Simulation Models for California

Kunreuther, Howard; Demidov, Artem; Pauly, Mark V.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Much of the property damage from wildfires occurs when fires spread into built up areas, the wildland urban interface. Fire spread within such areas occurs from house to house, as embers from one burning structure ignite neighboring ones. Actions can be taken to mitigate the chances that a given...

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The Economic Effects of the English Parliamentary Enclosures

Heldring, Leander; Robinson, James A.; Vollmer, Sebastian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We use a dataset of the entire population of English Parliamentary enclosure acts between 1750 and 1830 to provide the first causal evidence of their impact. Exploiting a feature of the Parliamentary process that produced such legislation as a source of exogenous variation, we show that...

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On the Ends of the State : Stationary Bandits and the Time Horizon in Eastern Congo

Henn, Soeren J.; Mugaruka, Christian M.; Ortiz, Miguel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We show that armed actors refrain from using their power to arbitrarily steal from an economy if, and only if, the armed actors' property rights over stealing from that economy are secure. By 2009, armed actors taxed, administered, and protected various villages in Democratic Republic of the...

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A Theory of Expropriation and Deviations From Perfect Capital Mobility

Eaton, Jonathan - 1982

This paper develops a theory of capital movements in the presence of potential expropriation. The threat of … expropriation is derived from utility maximizing behavior by host countries. Potential investors, anticipating this behavior, modify … their investment plans to avoid expropriation. When- ever the host country faces competitive foreign investors expropriation …

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