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Gordon, Roger H. - 2001

Given the temptation on government officials to use some of their budget for 'perks,' residents face the problem of inducing officials to reduce such 'waste.' The threat to vote out of office officials who perform poorly is one possible response. In this paper, we explore the effect that...

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Limits to Competition : Strategies for Promoting Jurisdictional Cooperation

Agrawal, David R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Inefficiencies from tax competition may result in governments seeking to limit fiscal competition via tax treaties, harmonization, minimum tax rates, or interjurisdictional cooperation. I propose a general model applicable to studying many types of taxing instruments, which allows for the...

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Intergenerational Fiscal Constitutions : How to Protect Future Generations Using Land Taxes and Federalism

Conley, John P. - 2001

This paper studies how to design a fiscal constitution that, by capitalizing intergenerational spillovers into land … spillovers depend on the type of the spillover. Land taxation is the essential instrument for policies that mostly generate … fiscal spillovers, such as debt and public infrastructure. By contrast, interjurisdictional competition is the essential …

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Moving and Housing Expenditure : Transaction Costs and Disequilibrium

Venti, Steven F. - 1982

The paper emphasizes initially the effects of moving transaction costs on the potential effect of government rent subsidy programs. As a concomitant to this analysis, the paper reaffirms the low income elasticities of housing expenditure among low-income renters found by others. Moving...

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Memory and Reference Prices : an Application to Rental Choice

Bordalo, Pedro - 2019

Simonsohn and Loewenstein (SL 2006) present evidence that a household moving from one US city to another tends to pay a rent level that is closer to the city of origin, relative to comparable locals. Building on "Memory, Attention, and Choice" (BGS 2019), we show that these effects emerge from...

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Place-Based Drivers of Mortality : Evidence from Migration

Finkelstein, Amy - 2019

We estimate the effect of current location on elderly mortality by analyzing outcomes of movers in the Medicare population. We control for movers' origin locations as well as a rich vector of pre-move health measures. We also develop a novel strategy to adjust for remaining unobservables, based...

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Creating Moves to Opportunity : Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice

Bergman, Peter - 2019

Low-income families in the United States tend to live in neighborhoods that offer limited opportunities for upward income mobility. One potential explanation for this pattern is that families prefer such neighborhoods for other reasons, such as affordability or proximity to family and jobs. An...

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Behavioral Responses to State Income Taxation of High Earners : Evidence from California

Rauh, Joshua - 2019

Drawing on the universe of California income tax filings and the variation imposed by a 2012 tax increase of up to 3 percentage points for high-income households, we present new findings about the effects of personal income taxation on household location choice and pre-tax income. First, over...

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The Children of HOPE VI Demolitions : National Evidence on Labor Market Outcomes

Haltiwanger, John C. - 2020

We combine national administrative data on earnings and participation in subsidized housing to study how the demolition of 160 public housing projects--funded by the HOPE VI program--affected the adult labor market outcomes for 18,500 children. Our empirical strategy compares children exposed to...

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Does Home Owning Smooth the Variability of Future Housing Consumption?

Paciorek, Andrew - 2010

We show that the hedging benefit of owning a home reduces the variability of housing consumption after a move. When a current home owner's house price covaries positively with housing costs in a future city, changes in the future cost of housing are offset by commensurate changes in wealth...

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