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Earmarking and the Political Support of Fat Taxes
Cremer, Helmuth - 2015
concerning the health effects of the consumption of fat and of healthy goods. The level of the fat tax is determined through … majority voting. Individuals vote according to their misperceived utility function. Consequently, excessive fat consumption is ….A fraction of the fat tax proceeds is "earmarked" to reduce health insurance premiums while the remaining fraction finances a …
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Moderating Political Extremism : Single Round vs Runoff Elections Under Plurality Rule
Bordignon, Massimo - 2013
We compare single round vs runoff elections under plurality rule, allowing for partly endogenous party formation. Under runoff elections, the number of political candidates is larger, but the influence of extremist voters on equilibrium policy and hence policy volatility are smaller, because the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076816
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Transfer Payment Systems and Financial Distress : Insights from Health Insurance Premium Subsidies
Schmid, Christian P.R; Schreiner, Nicolas; Stutzer, Alois - 2021
How should payment systems of means-tested benefits be designed to improve the financial situation of needy recipients most effectively? We study this question in the context of mandatory health insurance in Switzerland, where recipients initially received either a cash transfer or subsidized...
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Impacts of Shifting Responsibility for High-Cost Individuals on Health Insurance Exchange Plan Premiums and Cost-Sharing Provisions
Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - 2018
-cost individuals out of the Health Insurance Exchange (HIX) markets is expected to reduce federal expenditures for Advanced Premium Tax …
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Electoral Democracy at Work
Askenazy, Philippe - 2020
We show that an institutional change designed expressly to heighten competition for the provision of union services can have a substantial effect on unionization and employment relations. We study a French reform of 2008 that introduced mandatory elections for representation of workers at firm,...
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Electoral Rules, Political Competition and Fiscal Expenditures : Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities
Chamon, Marcos - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149609
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The Efficacy and Efforts of Interest Groups in Post Elections Policy Formation
Epstein, Gil S. - 2012
This paper presents a new model of interest groups and policy formation in the legislature. In our setting, the already given party ideological predispositions and power distribution determine the expected policy outcome. Our analysis applies to the case of un-enforced or enforced party...
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Child Care Subsidies and Childhood Obesity
Herbst, Chris M. - 2014
as well as measures of overweight and obesity. We then turn to quantile regression to address the possibility that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071040
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Fat and Out in Salerno and Province : Adolescent Obesity and Early School Leaving in Southern Italy
Barone, Adriana - 2014
In this paper, we focus on the causes and consequences of adolescent obesity from an economic perspective. The paper … examines the determinants of obesity and its role in influencing early school leaving amongst adolescents in the province of … and the differential effects of adolescent obesity for males and females. We find that: a) there is a strong and robust …
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Is Good Health Contagious? The Impact of BMI Environment on Individual BMI
McKennie, Caitlin - 2018
Increasing trends in obesity have driven policymakers around the US to examine factors associated with lower Body Mass …
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