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Evaluating the success of President Johnson's war on poverty : revisiting the historical record using a full-income poverty measure

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Corinth, Kevin; Elwell, James; … - 2019

We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty reductions based on the standard that President Johnson...

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Fostering the emancipation of young people : evidence from a Spanish rental subsidy

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Oppedisano, Veruska - 2012

In Southern Europe youngsters leave the parental home significantly later than in Northern Europe and United States. In this paper, we study the effect of a monthly cash subsidy on young adults' emancipation, family formation, and fertility. The subsidy, introduced in Spain in 2008, is...

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Rental housing discrimination and the persistence of ethnic enclaves

Bosch Mossi, Mariano; Carnero, M. Angeles; Farré, Lídia - 2011

We conduct a field experiment to show that discrimination in the rental market represents a significant obstacle for the geographical assimilation process by immigrants. We employ the Internet platform to identify vacant rental apartments in different areas of the two largest Spanish cities,...

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Welfare effects of property taxation

Löffler, Max; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2021

We analyze the welfare implications of property taxation. Using a sufficient statistics approach, we show that the tax incidence depends on how housing prices, labor and other types of incomes as well as public services respond to property tax changes. Empirically, we exploit the German...

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Short-term rental bans and housing prices : quasi-experimental evidence from Lisbon

Gonçalves, Duarte; Peralta, Susana; Santos, João … - 2022

We estimate the causal impact of a 2018 zoning reform that banned new short-term rental registries in some parts of Lisbon. The short-term rental licence expires when the house is sold, hence the ban removes the option value of short-term renting a property. We rely on two administrative data...

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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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