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The rise in obesity across the Atlantic: an economic perspective
Brunello, Giorgio; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; … - 2008
We provide comparable evidence on the patterns and trends in obesity across the Atlantic and analyse whether there are economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into account equity issues as well as efficiency considerations, which are organized around three...
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Understanding the economic consequences of shifting trends in population health
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Goldman, Dana; Lakdawalla, Darius; … - 2009
The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity, diabetes, and other diseases could reduce life expectancy - with a concomitant decrease in the public-sector's annuity burden - but these savings may be offset by worsening...
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Legislative term limits and state aid to local governments
Yakovlev, Pavel; Tosun, Mehmet S.; Lewis, William P. - 2012
-barrel spending, which takes the form of higher transfers from state to local governments. This finding might also imply that …
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Public Employment and Redistributive Politics: Evidence from Russia?s Regions
Gimpelson, Vladimir; Treisman, Daniel; Monusova, Galina - 2000
defined territorial units, and in regions which received larger federal transfers and loans. Regional governors appear to use … extract transfers. …
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Fiscal competition and the composition of public spending: theory and evidence
Borck, Rainald; Caliendo, Marco; Steiner, Viktor - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267819
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Policy responses to fiscal restraints: A difference-in-discontinuities design
Grembi, Veronica; Nannicini, Tommaso; Troiano, Ugo - 2012
We evaluate the effect of relaxing fiscal rules on policy outcomes applying a quasi-experimental research design. In 1999, the Italian central government introduced fiscal rules aimed at imposing fiscal discipline on municipal governments, and in 2001 the rules were relaxed for municipalities...
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A comparison of the poverty impact of transfers, taxes and market income across five OECD countries
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2008
This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269203
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Unequal giving: monetary gifts to children across countries and over time
Zissimopoulos, Julie M.; Smith, James P. - 2010
, relaxing binding credit constraints or responding to a transitory income shock. Financial transfers however, may extend … affect the distribution of resources within or between families in the next generation although the timing of transfers for … schooling or housing may have a significant impact on an individual child. Annual parental transfers for college age children in …
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The political resource curse
Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso; Perotti, Roberto; … - 2010
endogenous entry of political candidates. The evidence refers to municipalities in Brazil, where federal transfers to municipal … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … transfers increase political corruption and reduce the quality of candidates for mayor. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269401
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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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