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Keep Your Clunker in the Suburb : Low Emission Zones and Adoption of Green Vehicles
Wolff, Hendrik - 2014
Spatial distribution and leakage effects are of great policy concern and increasingly discussed in the economics literature. Here we study Europe's most aggressive recent air pollution regulation: Low Emission Zones are areas in which vehicular access is allowed only to vehicles that emit low...
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The Effects of Eu-Funded Enterprise Grants on Firms and Workers
Muraközy, Balázs - 2020
our simple calculations, each year's subsidy program created jobs in grant winning firms equivalent to 0.3-0.5 percent of …
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German Financial State Aid During COVID-19 Pandemic : Higher Impact Among Digitalized Self-Employed
Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022
In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a 50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the impact...
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The Long-Run Effects of Sports Club Vouchers for Primary School Children
Marcus, Jan; Siedler, Thomas; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021
Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders … carried out a large register-based survey among several cohorts in Saxony and two neighboring states. Our difference …
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The Effectiveness of Qualification Measures for Employed Workers - an Evaluation Study for Saxony
Fertig, Michael - 2021
the German state of Saxony were effective in terms of employment protection. To this end, a control function approach is …
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A Challenge for the G20 : Globally Stipulated Debt Brakes and Transnational Independent Fiscal Supervisory Councils
Dolls, Mathias - 2014
Debt-to-GDP ratios have grown to unprecedented levels in many industrialized economies. This requires disciplined consolidation efforts which are, however, supposed to come now at the wrong time with the economic recovery being fragile. Against this background, we call for a global debt brake...
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Electoral Accountability and Corruption in Local Governments : Evidence from Audit Reports
Ferraz, Claudio - 2007
Political corruption is a concern of many modern democracies. It weakens democratic institutions, restricts public services, and lowers productivity undermining economic development. Yet despite its importance, our understanding of what determines corruption is limited. This paper uses a novel...
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Exposing Corrupt Politicians : The Effects of Brazil's Publicly Released Audits on Electoral Outcomes
Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico - 2021
This paper examines whether access to information enhances political accountability. Based upon the results of Brazil's recent anti-corruption program that randomly audits municipal expenditures of federally-transferred funds, it estimates the effects of the disclosure of local government...
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The Geographic Accessibility of Child Care Subsidies and Evidence on the Impact of Subsidy Receipt on Childhood Obesity
Herbst, Chris M. - 2011
receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location … families must travel from home in order to reach the nearest office that administers the subsidy application process. Using … in the distance to a public human services agency reduces the likelihood that a family receives a child care subsidy …
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How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country
Cigno, Alessandro - 2011
As credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given that intra-family transfers, and the way a child uses her time outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child labour below its efficient level (if positive), and...
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