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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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in many place based policies. The optimal hiring subsidy is city specific in the sense that it depends upon the local …
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firms where government subsidizes entry of domestic entrepreneurs. Under autarky the entry subsidy indirectly corrects for …
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European countries have increasingly adopted wage subsidies for the sector of domestic services to reduce low-skilled unemployment. Yet, empirical evidence on their effectiveness is scarce. In this paper, we use Belgian administrative data to estimate how participation in the subsidized domestic...
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to (a) estimate the value of the externality and (b) discover the amount of subsidy needed to trigger the private … which selects projects based on the estimated amount of JLEs per dollar of subsidy. The bidding process provides an … incentive to investors to reveal the subsidy needed for a project to become privately viable. We show that the proposed approach …
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in East Germany after reunification. We show that a 1-percentage-point decrease in the subsidy rate leads to a 1 …
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Finnish payroll tax subsidy scheme, which is targeted at the employers of older, full-time, low-wage workers. The system …'s clear eligibility criteria open up an opportunity for a reliable estimation of the causal impacts of the subsidy, using a … difference-in-difference-in-differences approach. Our results indicate that the subsidy system had no effects on the employment …
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, when a Pigouvian tax on conventional fuels such as crude is in place, the optimal biofuel subsidy is zero. When the tax on … crude is not available as a policy option, however, a second-best biofuel subsidy (or tax) is optimal. In the large …-country case, the optimal tax on crude departs from its standard Pigouvian level and a biofuel subsidy is optimal. A biofuel …
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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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We investigate how the benefits of publicly financed higher education in Turkey are distributed among students with different socioeconomic backgrounds. We use a unique dataset from a nationally representative sample of university entrance exam takers together with data on government subsidies...
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