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Intergenerational Mobility between and within Canada and the United States

Connolly, Marie - 2019

Intergenerational income mobility is lower in the United States than in Canada, but varies significantly within each … regions we analyze within these two countries. The Canada-US border divides Central and Eastern Canada from the Great Lakes … mobility southern parts of the United States than with the rest of Canada, and the fact that these areas represent a much …

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Land Use Controls and the Provision of Education

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2012

Considerable prior analysis has gone into the study of zoning restrictions on locational choice and on fiscal burdens. The prior work on zoning - particularly fiscal or exclusionary zoning - has provided both inconclusive theoretical results and quite inconsistent empirical support of the...

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Assessing the Incidence and Efficiency of a Prominent Place Based Policy

Busso, Matias - 2010

This paper empirically assesses the incidence and efficiency of Round I of the federal urban Empowerment Zone (EZ) program using confidential microdata from the Decennial Census and the Longitudinal Business Database. To ground our welfare analysis, we develop a heterogeneous agent general...

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Spatial Development

Desmet, Klaus; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - 2021

We present a theory of spatial development. Manufacturing and services firms located in a continuous geographic area choose each period how much to innovate. Firms trade subject to transport costs and technology diffuses spatially across locations. The result is a spatial endogenous growth...

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The (Un)Changing Geographical Distribution of Housing Tax Benefits : 1980 to 2000

Sinai, Todd M. - 2012

Even though the top marginal income tax rate has fallen substantially and the tax code has become less progressive since 1979, the tax benefit to homeowners was virtually unchanged between 1979-1989, and then rose substantially between 1989-1999. Using tract-level data from the 1980, 1990, and...

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The Spatial Distribution of Housing-Related Tax Benefits in the United States

Sinai, Todd M. - 2012

Using 1990 Census tract-level data, we estimate how tax subsidies to owner-occupied housing are distributed spatially across the United States, calculating their value as the difference in taxes currently paid by home owners and the taxes owners would pay if there were no preference for...

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The Unequal Geographic Burden of Federal Taxation

Albouy, David - 2010

In the United States, workers in cities offering above-average wages - cities with high productivity, low quality-of-life, or inefficient housing sectors - pay 30 percent more in federal taxes than otherwise identical workers in cities offering below-average wages. According to simulation...

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Factor Endowments and the Returns to Skill : New Evidence from the American Past

Kaboski, Joseph P. - 2010

The existing literature on skill-biased technical change has not considered how the technological endowment itself plays a role in the returns to skill. This paper constructs a simple model of skill biased technical change which highlights the role that resource endowments play in the returns to...

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Rent Seeking and the Unveiling of 'De Facto' Institutions : Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil

Naritomi, Joana - 2010

This paper analyzes the roots of variation in de facto institutions, within a constant de jure institutional setting. We explore the role of rent-seeking episodes in colonial Brazil as determinants of the quality of current local institutions, and argue that this variation reveals a de facto...

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Returns to Local-Area Health Care Spending : Using Health Shocks to Patients Far from Home

Doyle, Joseph J. - 2010

Health care spending varies widely across markets, yet there is little evidence that higher spending translates into better health outcomes, possibly due to endogeneity bias. The main innovation in this paper compares outcomes of patients who are exposed to different health care systems that...

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