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The Effect of Inequality on Redistribution : An Econometric Analysis

Boskin, Michael J.; Elnahal, Kareem; Zhang, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using data on U.S. state and federal taxes and transfers over a quarter century, we estimate a regression model that yields the marginal effect of any shift of market income share from one quintile to another on the entire post tax, post-transfer income distribution. We identify exogenous income...

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Competitive Effects of Charter Schools

Figlio, David N.; Hart, Cassandra M. D.; Karbownik, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging three alternative identification strategies, we explore how increase in access to charter schools in twelve districts in Florida affects students remaining in traditional public schools (TPS). We...

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What Works and For Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across The U.S

Biasi, Barbara; Lafortune, Julien M.; Schönholzer, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper identifies which investments in school facilities help students and are valued by homeowners. Using novel data on school district bonds, test scores, and house prices for 29 U.S. states and a research design that exploits close elections with staggered timing, we show that increased...

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Marginal Returns to Public Universities

Mountjoy, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper studies the causal impacts of public universities on the outcomes of their marginally admitted students. I use administrative admission records spanning all 35 public universities in Texas, which collectively enroll 10 percent of American public university students, to systematically...

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The Economic Approach to Political Borders

Spolaore, Enrico - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper overviews theoretical and empirical studies of political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public policies as...

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Minimum Tax Rates and Tax Competition : Evidence from Property Tax Limits in Finland

Lyytikäinen, Teemu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper analyzes how minimum local property tax rates affect local tax policy choice. In Finland, central government has raised the limits on property tax rates several times in the past 30 years. I construct a measure of forced tax rate increases caused by these reforms and examine how...

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How Did Federal Aid to States and Localities Affect Testing and Vaccine Delivery?

Clemens, Jeffrey; Hoxie, Philip G.; Kearns, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We estimate whether federal aid for state and local governments played a role in advancing population testing for COVID-19 and the administration of vaccines. To overcome biases that can result from the endogeneity of federal aid allocations, we use an instrumental-variables estimator reliant on...

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Infrastructure in a Structural Model of Economic Growth

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 1994

between infrastructure and productivity growth remains controversial. In this regard, it is somewhat surprising that … the empirical importance of public capital accumulation to productivity growth. We find little support for claims of a … dramatic productivity boost from increased infrastructure outlays. In a specification designed to provide an upper bound for …

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Capital Budgets, Borrowing Rules, and State Capital Spending

Poterba, James - 1992

This paper uses cross-section data on the U.S. states to test the hypothesis that budgeting and borrowing rules affect the level and composition of public spending. It employs a 1963 data set with detailed information on state capital budgeting practices to compare capital spending in states...

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Fiscal Risk and the Portfolio of Government Programs

Hanson, Samuel G. - 2016

In this paper, we develop a new model for government cost-benefit analysis in the presence of risk. In our model, a benevolent government chooses the scale of a risky project in the presence of two key frictions. First, there are market failures, which cause the government to perceive project...

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