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Misallocation in Firm Production : A Nonparametric Analysis Using Procurement Lotteries
Carrillo, Paul E.; Donaldson, Dave; Pomeranz, Dina; … - 2023
How costly is the misallocation of production that we might expect to result from distortions such as market power, incomplete contracts, taxes, regulations, or corruption? This paper develops new tools for the study of misallocation that place minimal assumptions on firms’ underlying...
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Optimal Carbon Taxation and Horizontal Equity : A Welfare-Theoretic Approach with Application to German Household Data
Hänsel, Martin C.; Franks, Max; Kalkuhl, Matthias; … - 2021
welfare maximizing tax structure. We calibrate the model to German household data and a 30 percent emission reduction goal … revenue via household-specific transfers is the first-best policy. Equal per-capita transfers do not suffer from informational …
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Does Public Employment Affect Household Saving Rates? Evidence from Chinese Household Data
Xu, Can; Steiner, Andreas - 2022
This paper investigates the impact of public employment on household saving rates in China using representative … household-level data. After controlling for a series of variables such as income, risk attitude, financial literacy, and … to a better understanding of Chinese household saving rates, which is of great importance given their extremely high …
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Gathering Support for Green Tax Reform : Evidence from German Household Surveys
van der Ploeg, Rick; Rezai, Armon; Tovar, Miguel - 2021
investigate this, we estimate an EASI demand system from German household data and a labour supply schedule, using wage data, and …
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A Public Good Version of the Collective Household Model : An Empirical Approach with an Application to British Household Data
Klaveren, Chris van; van Praag, B.M.S; Maassen van den … - 2021
In this paper we consider an empirical collective household model of time allocation for two-earner households. The … novelty of this paper is that we estimate a version of the collective household model, where the internally produced goods and … are equally weighted in the household utility function; (3) Differences in the ratio of the partners' hourly wages are …
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Fighting Climate Change : The Role of Norms, Preferences, and Moral Values
Falk, Armin; Andre, Peter; Boneva, Teodora; Chopra, Felix - 2021
We document individual willingness to fight climate change and its behavioral determinants in a large representative sample of US adults. Willingness to fight climate change – as measured through an incentivized donation decision – is highly heterogeneous across the population. Individual...
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Body Mass, Nutrition, and Disease : Current Net Nutrition During Us Economic Development
Carson, Scott A. - 2020
When other measures for material welfare are scarce or unreliable, the use of average stature and body mass index (BMI) values is common. BMI reflects the current difference between calories consumed, calories required for work, and to withstand the physical environment. This study evaluates...
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Epidemic Exposure, Fintech Adoption, and the Digital Divide
Saka, Orkun; Eichengreen, Barry; Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2021
We ask whether epidemic exposure leads to a shift in financial technology usage within and across countries and if so who participates in this shift. We exploit a dataset combining Gallup World Polls and Global Findex surveys for some 250,000 individuals in 140 countries, merging them with...
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Good Mine, Bad Mine : Natural Resource Heterogeneity and Dutch Disease in Indonesia
Pelzl, Paul - 2019
We analyse the local effect of exogenous shocks to the value of mineral deposits at the district level in Indonesia …
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The Welfare Effects of Persuasion and Taxation : Theory and Evidence from the Field
Rodemeier, Matthias - 2020
regarding the financial benefits of energy-efficient household lighting among more than 640,000 subjects. We find that full …
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