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Prioritarianism in Education
Ooghe, Erwin - 2021
on education. Afterwards, I analyze how prioritarians would allocate resources in a dynamic model of skill formation and …
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Drivers of COVID-19 Vaccinations : Vaccine Administration and Delivery Efficiency in the United States
Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2021
drivers of the administration and delivery efficiency of coronavirus vaccines. For this purpose, we use data from the 50 US … economic prosperity and rural population aid vaccine administration and delivery efficiency. Delivery efficiency improves in … health workers, including physicians and nurses, did not significantly impact administration or efficiency. On the other hand …
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Efficient Taxation of Fuel and Road Use
Bjertnæs, Geir H. - 2020
This study calculates efficient taxes on gasoline and road use designed to combat driving related externalities when motorists avoid taxes due to an excessive economic driving-style. The efficient tax on gasoline is reduced below the Pigouvian rate due to such avoidance. The current US tax rate...
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Non-Competitive Wage-Setting as a Cause of Unfriendly and Inefficient Leadership
Dur, Robert - 2019
This paper develops a simple economic model to examine how leadership styles in organizations depend on the prevailing wage-setting conditions for workers. In particular, we examine a leader who can - in addition to the use of monetary incentives - motivate a worker by adopting leadership styles...
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Economic Geography and the Efficiency of Environmental Regulation
Hollingsworth, Alex; Jaworski, Taylor; Kitchens, Carl; … - 2022
We develop a spatial equilibrium model to evaluate the efficiency and distributional impacts of the leading air quality …
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Inefficiency in Social Security Trust Funds Forecasts
Lahiri, Kajal; Zhang, Junyan; Zhao, Yongchen - 2021
We examine forecast accuracy and efficiency of the Social Security Administration’s projections for cost rate, trust …
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Efficiency and Equity : A General Equilibrium Analysis of Rent-Seeking
Heijdra, Ben J.; Heijnen, Pim - 2021
inequity). This tradeoff between efficiency and equity is the primary focus of this paper. We investigate how the distribution …
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Efficient Level of Seps Licensing
Langus, Gregor; Lipatov, Vilen - 2022
We study the question whether a holder of standard essential patents (SEPs) should be allowed to choose the level in the value chain at which to offer a FRAND license to its SEPs. We give a pos-itive answer to this question for two reasons. First, the SEP holder and the social planner tend to...
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Trade, Education, and Income Inequality
Brueckner, Markus - 2020
education of the population increases the correlation between non-gravity trade and income inequality becomes smaller. Non …-gravity trade has no significant effect on income inequality in countries that are world leaders in education …
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Can Competition Reduce Conflict?
Garg, Teevrat; Gennaioli, Caterina; Lovo, Stefania; … - 2023
We examine the effect of inter-group fiscal competition on within-group violent conflict. Using a triple difference design, we exploit exogenous variation in the degree to which villages in sub-districts compete for public funds. We find that higher competition between villages reduces conflict...
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