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Arm's Length Provision of Public Services
Bennedsen, Morten; Schultz, Christian - 2021
We analyze the economic consequences of strategic delegation of the right to decide between public or private provision of a governmental service and/or the authority to negotiate and renegotiate with the chosen service provider. Our model encompasses both bureaucratic delegation from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316659
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Identifying and Overcoming Gender Barriers in Tech : A Field Experiment on Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination
Feld, Jan; Ip, Edwin; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Vecci, Joseph - 2022
discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender … evidence that statistical discrimination can be mitigated. In two treatments, in which we provide assessors with additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244324
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Identifying and Overcoming Gender Barriers in Tech: A Field Experiment on Inaccurate Statistical Discrimination
Feld, Jan; Ip, Edwin; Leibbrandt, Andreas; Vecci, Joseph - 2022
discrimination in job applicant assessments and test treatments to help improve hiring of the best applicants. In our experiment, we … resumes. We find evidence consistent with inaccurate statistical discrimination: while there are no significant gender … evidence that statistical discrimination can be mitigated. In two treatments, in which we provide assessors with additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013427756
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Who Is in Favor of Affirmative Action? Representative Evidence from an Experiment and a Survey
Herzog, Sabrina; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Trieu, Chi; … - 2023
Although affirmative action remains controversial, little is known about who supports or opposes it and why. This paper investigates preferences for affirmative action by combining causal evidence from an experiment on the role of self-serving motives and in-group favoritism with survey data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469823
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Regulation of Location-Specific Externalities
Amundsen, Eirik S. - 2019
In this paper, we study regulation of externalities involving many small-scale polluters, where the damages from emissions depend on the polluters’ locations. Examples include nutrient and pesticide emissions from farms, particulate emissions from vehicles and home heating units, emissions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892205
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Welfare Losses of Road Congestion
Russo, Antonio - 2019
We estimate the marginal external congestion cost of motor-vehicle travel for Rome, Italy, using a methodology that accounts for hypercongestion (a situation where congestion decreases a road’s throughput). We show that the external cost – even when roads are not hypercongested...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867018
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The Social Cost of Carbon with Intragenerational Inequality Under Economic Uncertainty
van der Ploeg, Rick; Emmerling, Johannes; Groom, Ben - 2022
A formula is derived for the social cost of carbon (SCC) that takes account of intragenerational income inequality and its evolution with economic growth. The social discount rate (SDR) should be adjusted to account for intragenerational and intergenerational inequality aversion and for risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082790
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Environmental Tax Reform and Income Distribution with Imperfect Heterogeneous Labour Markets
Aubert, Diane; Chiroleu-Assouline, Mireille - 2017
This paper investigates the distributional and efficiency consequences of an environmental tax reform, when the revenue from the green tax is recycled by varying labor tax rates. We build a general equilibrium model with imperfect heterogeneous labor markets, pollution consumption externalities,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698665
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Gathering Support for Green Tax Reform: Evidence from German Household Surveys
van der Ploeg, Rick; Rezai, Armon; Tovar, Miguel - 2021
Green tax reform is unpopular because, typically, the poor are hurt most by the higher prices of carbon-intensive commodities. If revenues from a carbon tax are recycled, it may be feasible to gain popular support for green tax reform. To investigate this, we estimate an EASI demand system from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799698
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Gathering Support for Green Tax Reform : Evidence from German Household Surveys
van der Ploeg, Rick; Rezai, Armon; Tovar, Miguel - 2021
Green tax reform is unpopular because, typically, the poor are hurt most by the higher prices of carbon-intensive commodities. If revenues from a carbon tax are recycled, it may be feasible to gain popular support for green tax reform. To investigate this, we estimate an EASI demand system from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314691