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Should Transfer Payments Be Indexed to Local Price Levels?

Glaeser, Edward L. - 1996

This paper examines the optimal location-based redistribution policy and shows that adjustment for local price levels is occasionally optimal, but never for the reasons suggested by the popular press. First, the existence of a spatial equilibrium suggests that utility levels will be equalized...

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Urban Inequality

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2008

poverty, but today, inequality is more strongly linked to the presence of the wealthy. Inequality in skills can explain about …

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Inequality

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2005

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Corruption in America

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2004

We use a data set of federal corruption convictions in the U.S. to investigate the causes and consequences of corruption. More educated states, and to a less degree richer states, have less corruption. This relationship holds even when we use historical factors like education in 1928 or...

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Urban Public Finance

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2012

America's local governments spend about one-eighth of our national income, one-fourth of total government spending, and employ over 14 million people. This paper surveys the large and growing economics literature on local governments and their finances. A primary difference between local and...

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International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment : Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks

Yang, Dean - 2006

peso leads to increases in household remittances received from overseas. The estimated elasticity of Philippine …-peso remittances with respect to the Philippine/foreign exchange rate is 0.60. These positive income shocks lead to enhanced human …

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Directing Remittances to Education with Soft and Hard Commitments : Evidence from a Lab-in-the-field Experiment and New Product Take-up Among Filipino Migrants in Rome

De Arcangelis, Giuseppe - 2015

This paper tests how migrants' willingness to remit changes when given the ability to direct remittances to educational … commitment of simply labeling remittances as being for education, to the hard commitment of having funds directly paid to a … raises remittances by more than 15 percent. Adding the ability to directly send this funding to the school adds only a …

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Remittance Responses to Temporary Discounts : A Field Experiment among Central American Migrants

Ambler, Kate - 2014

We study the impacts on remittances of offering migrants temporary discounts on remittance transaction fees. We … weeks after expiration of the discount. We find no evidence that the discounts cause migrants to shift remittances from … other remittance channels, or to send remittances on behalf of other migrants. These findings are consistent with naïveté on …

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Channeling Remittances to Education : A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador

Ambler, Kate - 2014

We implement a randomized experiment offering Salvadoran migrants matching funds for educational remittances, which are … remittances …

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Savings in Transnational Households : A Field Experiment among Migrants from El Salvador

Ashraf, Nava - 2014

-country savings does not affect remittances sent home by migrants …

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