Showing 1 - 10 of 132
Government agencies typically have a certain freedom to choose among different possible courses of action. This paper studies agency decision-making on priorities in a principal-agent framework with multi-tasking. The agency head (the principal) has discretion over part of the agency's budget to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532608
, ranging from the demise of the communist system, increased globalization, new competition for multinational firms and higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381042
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765837
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009720707
Like other countries seeking a progressive path to universalism, Peru has attempted to reduce inequalities in access to healthcare by granting the poor entitlement to tax-financed basic care without charge. We identify the impact of this policy by comparing the target populationś change in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446892
We study the impact of audits on water conservation, distinguishing between the information and technological components. We observe water consumption for up to 18 months for 10,000 households in the South East of England who received the visit of a so-called Green Doctor. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427704
Variation in assessor stringency in awarding benefits leaves applicants exposed to uninsured risk that could be systematic if discretion were exercised selectively. We test for this using administrative data on applications to the Dutch disability insurance program. We find that discretion is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013468321
The paper examines the effect of heterogeneity in individual human capital formation on cross-country income inequality. It considers a two-country model of overlapping generation heterogeneous economies with the following features: (1) individuals are heterogeneous with respect to inborn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374433
Should education be subsidized for the purpose of redistribution? The usual argument against subsidies to education above the primary level is that the rich take up most education, so a subsidy would increase inequality. We show that there is a counteracting effect: an increase in the stock of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317437
The paper studies the effects of cross-country differences in the productionprocess of human capital on income distribution and growth. Our overlapping gen-erations economy has the following features: (1) consumers are heterogenous withrespect to parental human capital and wealth; (2)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326974