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Fiscal competition for imperfectly-mobile labor and capital : a comparative dynamic analysis

Wildasin, David E. - 2009

Interjurisdictional flows of imperfectly-mobile migrants, investment, and other productive resources result in the costly dynamic adjustment of resource stocks. This paper investigates the comparative dynamics of adjustment to changes in local fiscal policy with two imperfectly mobile productive...

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Electoral rules, political competition and fiscal expenditures : regression discontinuity evidence from Brazilian municipalities

Chamon, Marcos; Mello, Joao M. P. de; Firpo, Sérgio … - 2009

We exploit a discontinuity in Brazilian municipal election rules to investigate whether political competition has a causal impact on policy choices. In municipalities with less than 200,000 voters mayors are elected with a plurality of the vote. In municipalities with more than 200,000 voters a...

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Fiscal competition and the composition of public spending : theory and evidence

Borck, Rainald (contributor); Caliendo, Marco (contributor); … - 2006

In this paper, we consider fiscal competition between jurisdictions. Capital taxes are used to finance a public input and two public goods, one which benefits mobile skilled workers and one which benefits immobile unskilled workers. We derive the jurisdictions' reaction functions for different...

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Fiscal zoning, sales taxes, and employment : do higher sales taxes lead to more jobs in retailing and fewer jobs in manufacturing?

Burnes, Daria; Neumark, David; White, Michelle J. - 2012

We test the hypothesis that local government officials in jurisdictions that have higher local sales taxes are more likely to use fiscal zoning to attract retailing. We find that total retail employment is not significantly affected by local sales tax rates, but employment in big box and anchor...

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Modeling the signaling value of the GED with an application to an exogenous passing standard increase in Texas

Lofstrom, Magnus (contributor); Tyler, John H. (contributor) - 2007

which affected GED test takers in Texas. We utilize unique data from the Texas Schools Micro Data Panel (TSMP) which contain … demographic and GED test score information from the Texas Education Agency linked to pre- and post-test taking Unemployment … Insurance quarterly wage records from the Texas Workforce Commission. Comparing Texas dropouts who acquired a GED before the …

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Do bans on affirmative action hurt minority students? : evidence from the Texas Top 10% Plan

Cortes, Kalena E. - 2010

from affirmative action to the Top 10% Plan in Texas decreased both retention and graduation rates of lower-ranked minority …" hypothesis. These results suggest that most of the increase in the graduation gap between minorities and non-minorities in Texas …

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Ranking up by moving out : the effect of the Texas Top 10% Plan on property values

Cortes, Kalena E.; Friedson, Andrew I. - 2010

Texas engaged in a large-scale policy experiment when it instituted the Top 10% Plan. This policy guarantees automatic …

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Impact of bilingual education programs on limited English proficient students and their peers : regression discontinuity evidence from Texas

Chin, Aimee; Daysal, N. Meltem; Imberman, Scott A. - 2012

Texas requires a school district to offer bilingual education when its enrollment of limited English proficient (LEP …

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Can admissions percent plans lead to better collegiate fit for minority students?

Cortes, Kalena E.; Lincove, Jane Arnold - 2015

Why do so many students mismatch when choosing a college? A plausible hypothesis is a lack of information about the likelihood of admission. This study contributes to the literature on mismatch by testing whether public university automatic admissions policies mitigate academic undermatch and...

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Modeling area-level health rankings

Courtemanche, Charles; Soneji, Samir; Tchernis, Rusty - 2013

uncertainty. We use county-level data from Texas and Wisconsin to compare our approach to conventional rankings that assign … deterministic factor weights and ignore uncertainty. Greater discrepancies in rankings emerge for Texas than Wisconsin since the … but becomes especially large in Texas after incorporating noise from imputing its considerable missing data. …

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