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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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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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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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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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When Decentralization Works : Leadership, Local Needs, and Student Achievement

Jackson, Clement - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

This paper studies when decentralization improves public service delivery. I analyze a Chicago reform that awarded select principals greater autonomy over budgets and operations while holding resources largely unchanged. A meta-analysis of similar reforms shows substantial heterogeneity,...

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The Personalist Penalty : Varieties of Autocracy and Economic Growth

Blattman, Christopher; Gehlbach, Scott; Yu, Arthur Zeyang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Studies of income and regime type typically contrast democracies and autocracies, ignoring heterogeneity in the character of authoritarian regimes. We focus on the consequences of personalist rule, where power is concentrated in an individual or small elite. Extending the dynamic panel strategy...

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Engineering Ukraine's Wirtschaftswunder

Akcigit, Ufuk; Kilic, Furkan; Lall, Somik V.; Shpak, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

--a productivity-driven economic transformation akin to post-war West Germany. While investment-led growth may offer quick wins, it is … destruction and productivity in Ukraine. It finds that business dynamism is on the decline, alongside rising market concentration … among incumbent businesses, including low productivity state owned enterprises. To inform priorities for reviving business …

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