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Forecasting Trends in Disability in a Super-Aging Society : Adapting the Future Elderly Model to Japan
Chen, Brian - 2016
Model (FEM), a demographic and economic state-transition microsimulation model that projects the health conditions and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001226
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Targeted Transfers and the Fiscal Response to the Great Recession
Oh, Hyunseung - 2011
Between 2007 and 2009, government expenditures increased rapidly across the OECD countries. While economic research on the impact of government purchases has flourished, in the data, about three quarters of the increase in expenditures in the United States (and more in other countries) was in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130263
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Informational Rents, Macroeconomic Rents, and Efficient Bailouts
Philippon, Thomas - 2011
We analyze government interventions to alleviate debt overhang among banks. Interventions generate two types of rents. Informational rents arise from opportunistic participation based on private information while macroeconomic rents arise from free riding. Minimizing informational rents is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130980
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Germany's Economic Unification : An Assessment after Ten Years
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2011
A political miracle occurred when Germany was reunited, and at first glance an economic miracle has followed. Real incomes in the east have now reached the western level, and investment per capita has been much higher than in the west. However, every third deutschmark spent in the east has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132721
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When Opportunity Knocks, Who Answers? New Evidence on College Achievement Awards
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2010
We evaluate the effects of academic achievement awards for first and second-year college students on a Canadian commuter campus. The award scheme offered linear cash incentives for course grades above 70. Awards were paid every term. Program participants also had access to peer advising by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134842
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Local Electoral Incentives and Decentralized Program Performance
de Janvry, Alain - 2010
This paper analyzes how electoral incentives affected the performance of a major decentralized conditional cash transfer program intended on reducing school dropout rates among children of poor households in Brazil. We show that while this federal program successfully reduced school dropout by 8...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134863
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The State of the Safety Net in the Post-Welfare Reform Era
Bitler, Marianne P. - 2010
The passage of the 1996 welfare reform bill led to sweeping changes to the central U.S. cash safety net program for … families with children. Importantly, along with other changes, the reform imposed lifetime time limits for receipt of welfare … de facto ending the entitlement nature of cash welfare for poor families with children in the United States. Despite dire …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136551
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Is Crowding Out Due Entirely to Fundraising? Evidence from a Panel of Charities
Andreoni, James - 2010
When the government gives a grant to a private charitable organization, do the donors to that organization give less? If they do, is it because the grants crowd out donors who feel they gave through taxes (classic crowd out), or is it because the grant crowds out the fund-raising of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138085
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The Insurance Value of State Tax-and-Transfer Programs
Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - 2010
This paper estimates the total value that individuals derive from their state's tax-and-transfer program, and shows how this value varies by income. The paper decomposes this total value into two components: redistributive value, which is due to predictable changes in income (and family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139136
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Insurers' Negotiating Leverage and the External Effects of Medicare Part D
Lakdawalla, Darius N. - 2010
Public financing of private health insurance may generate external effects beyond the subsidized population, by influencing the size and bargaining power of health insurers. We test for this external effect in the context of Medicare Part D. We analyze how Part D-related insurer size increases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139556