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Understanding Demand for Police Alternatives
Ba, Bocar A.; Baskar, Meghna; Mariman, Rei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
While police brutality has sparked demands to scale back policing, public constituencies still have limited knowledge about policing alternatives. In survey experiments, we provide information about dontcallthepolice.com--a database of police alternatives--and police violence statistics and...
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The Effect of Inequality on Redistribution : An Econometric Analysis
Boskin, Michael J.; Elnahal, Kareem; Zhang, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Using data on U.S. state and federal taxes and transfers over a quarter century, we estimate a regression model that yields the marginal effect of any shift of market income share from one quintile to another on the entire post tax, post-transfer income distribution. We identify exogenous income...
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Assessing School District Decision-Making : Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Christian, Alvin; Jacob, Brian Aaron; Singleton, John D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic drew new attention to the role of school boards in the U.S. In this paper, we examine school districts' choices of learning modality--whether and when to offer in-person, virtual, or hybrid instruction--over the course of the 2020-21 pandemic school year. The analysis takes...
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Can Fiscal Externalities Be Internalized?
Luttmer, Erzo F. P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Subsidies and in-kind transfers give rise to negative fiscal externalities. However, internalizing negative fiscal externalities through taxation would undo the subsidy or in-kind transfer that caused them. Similarly, positive fiscal externalities cannot be internalized though government...
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The Economic Approach to Political Borders
Spolaore, Enrico - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper overviews theoretical and empirical studies of political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public policies as...
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Optimal Paternalism in a Population with Bounded Rationality
Manski, Charles F.; Sheshinski, Eytan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
A central mission of public economics has been to determine policies that optimize utilitarian welfare. To improve the realism of policy evaluation, it is desirable to enrich understanding of behavior and develop methods of analysis that use the enriched understanding to assess policies....
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The Long-Run Impacts of Public Industrial Investment on Local Development and Economic Mobility : Evidence from World War II
Garin, Andrew; Rothbaum, Jonathan L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies the long-run effects of government-led construction of manufacturing plants on the regions where they were built and on individuals from those regions. Specifically, we examine publicly financed plants built in dispersed locations outside of major urban centers for security...
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World War II Blues : The Long-lasting Mental Health Effect of Childhood Trauma
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Tekin, Erdal; Turan, Belgi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
There has been a revival of warfare and threats of interstate war in recent years as the number of countries engaged in armed conflict surged dramatically, reaching to levels unprecedented since the end of Cold War. This is happening at a time when the global burden of mental health illness is...
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An Anatomy of Crypto-Enabled Cybercrimes
Cong, Lin William; Harvey, Campbell R.; Rabetti, Daniel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
While the advent of cryptocurrencies and digital assets holds promise for improving and disrupting financial systems by offering cheap, quick, and secure transfer of value, it also opens up new payment channels for cybercrimes. A prerequisite to solving a problem is understanding the nature of...
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Wars and the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities in the U.S
Ferrara, Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This chapter reviews key literature studying the effects of wars on minority and underrepresented groups in U.S. labor … that sudden labor shortages, similar to those induced by large-scale wars, are not a feature of the past. Hence, a better … market outcomes of Black and white women, as well as Black men, during and after the two World Wars. Their labor inputs …
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