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Dragnet-Controls and Government Ideology
Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
, in turn, new populist parties that offer more polarized platforms. I investigate whether government ideology influences … evaluating how government/party ideology influences individual policies, previous econometric studies ignored initiatives in …
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The Political Scar of Epidemics
Eichengreen, Barry; Saka, Orkun; Aksoy, Cevat - 2021
with the (in)effectiveness of a government’s healthcare-related responses to past epidemics. We document this mechanism …
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Does Data Disclosure Improve Local Government Performance? Evidence from Italian Municipalities
Lockwood, Ben; Porcelli, Francesco; Redoano, Michela; … - 2022
Government in late 2014 - as a natural experiment to analyse the effect of data disclosure on mayors’ expenditure and public good …
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The child adoption marketplace: Parental preferences and adoption outcomes
Skidmore, Mark; Anderson, Gary; Eiswerth, Mark - 2011
In the United States child adoption costs vary considerably, ranging from no out-of-pocket expense to $50,000 or more. What are the underlying causes for the variability in child adoption expenses? While cost variability is widely acknowledged, the sources of the differentials have not been...
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Short-Time Work Subsidies in a Matching Model
Meier, Volker - 2019
We consider positive and normative aspects of subsidizing work arrangements where subsidies are paid in time of low demand and reduced working hours so as to stabilize workers’ income. In a matching framework such an arrangement increases labor demand. Tightening eligibility to short-time work...
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Solar Rebound - The Unintended Consequences of Subsidies
Gautier, Axel - 2019
Many jurisdictions use net metering to record the power exchange between solar photovoltaic panels and the grid, thus valuing home production at the electricity retail rate. However, if over the billing period, production exceeds consumption, the surplus remains freely available for consumption....
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Optimal Energy Taxes and Subsidies under a Cost-Effective Unilateral Climate Policy : Addressing Carbon Leakage
Kruse-Andersen, Peter - 2019
domestic and foreign production of other goods. The optimal tax-subsidy scheme is based on an intuitive principle: Impose a …. Producers of renewables-based electricity should receive a subsidy to internalize their contribution to the reduction of global …
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Efficiency in Wholesale Electricity Markets : On the Role of Externalities and Subsidies
Bialek, Sylwia; Unel, Burcin - 2021
-best outcomes. We also show there exists a range of subsidy rates that are welfare-enhancing when greenhouse gas externalities are …
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Motivation Crowding in Peer Effects : The Effect of Solar Subsidies on Green Power Purchases
La Nauze, Andrea - 2021
voluntary purchases of green power by neighbors. However, using sharp changes in government incentives over time, I find that …
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How Effective are Hiring Subsidies to Reduce Long-Term Unemployment Among Prime-Aged Jobseekers? Evidence from Belgium
Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - 2021
abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its … effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a triple difference methodology the hiring subsidy is shown to increase the job … at least a bachelor’s degree. However, the hiring subsidy mainly created temporary short-lived employment: eligible …
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