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Public Transit Bus Procurement : The Role of Energy Prices, Regulation and Federal Subsidies
Li, Shanjun - 2014
The U.S. public transit system represents a multi-billion dollar industry that provides essential transit services to millions of urban residents. We study the market for new transit buses that features a set of non-profit transit agencies purchasing buses primarily from a few domestic bus...
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Screen Now, Save Later? The Trade-Off between Administrative Ordeals and Fraud
Aman-Rana, Shan; Gingerich, Daniel W.; Sukhtankar, Sandip - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Screening requirements are common features of fraud and corruption mitigation efforts around the world. Yet imposing … beneficiaries on one hand and lower fraud on the other. We examine these trade-offs in one of the largest economic relief programs … measures of loan irregularities that are indicative of fraud. Moreover, our analysis reveals that a subset of borrowers with a …
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Do Subsidies to Commercial R&D Reduce Market Failures? Microeconomic Evaluation Studies
Klette, Tor Jakob - 1999
A number of market failures have been associated with R&D investments and significant amounts of public money have been spent on programs to stimulate innovative activities. In this paper, we review some recent microeconomic studies evaluating effects of government sponsored commercial R&D. We...
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Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance
Black, Sandra E. - 2012
these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are …
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Misreporting in the Norwegian Business Cash Support Scheme
Alpysbayeva, Dinara - 2024
find strong evidence that strategic misreporting was present but conclude that its remaining quantitative extent after enforcement actions already taken by the tax authorities was relatively small. Firms tend to misreport 4 percent more often than expected, and the actual support paid out was 5...
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Why Do the Poor Live in Cities?
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2000
More than 17 percent of households in American central cities live in poverty; in American suburbs, just 7.4 percent of households live in poverty. The income elasticity of demand for land is too low for urban poverty to be the result of wealthy individuals' wanting to live where land is cheap...
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An Economic Analysis of U.S Public Transit Carbon Emissions Dynamics
Huang, Robert; Kahn, Matthew E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Urban public transit agencies spend billions of dollars each year on workers, durable capital and energy to supply transportation services. During a time of rising concern about climate change, the urban public transit sector has not significantly reduced its carbon footprint. Using data for the...
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Racial Disparity in COVID-19 Deaths : Seeking Economic Roots with Census data
McLaren, John - 2020
This note seeks the socioeconomic roots of racial disparities in COVID-19 mortality, using county-level mortality, economic, and demographic data from 3,140 counties. For all minorities, the minority's population share is strongly correlated with total COVID-19 deaths. For Hispanic/Latino and...
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Information and Credible Sanctions in Curbing Online Cheating Among Undergraduates : a Field Experiment
Dench, Daniel; Joyce, Theodore J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The rapid increase in online instruction in higher education has heightened concerns about cheating. We use a randomized control design to test whether informing students that we can detect plagiarism reduces cheating. We further test whether informing students they have been caught cheating...
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A Solomonic Solution to Ownership Disputes : An Application to Blockchain Front-Running
Gans, Joshua; Holden, Richard T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Blockchain front-running involves multiple agents, other than the legitimate agent, claiming a payment from performing a contract. It arises because of the public nature of blockchain transactions and potential network congestion. This paper notes that disputes over payments are similar to...
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