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Pricing Neighborhoods
Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J.; Razavi, Goya - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Education in Denmark is freely available. Despite near equal teacher salaries and per-pupil school expenditure across districts, there is substantial spatial heterogeneity in school quality as measured by teacher quality and student test scores. We argue that this is due to sorting of teachers...
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Aftermarket Frictions and the Cost of Off-Platform Options in Centralized Assignment Mechanisms
Kapor, Adam; Karnani, Mohit; Neilson, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study the welfare and human-capital impacts of the configuration of on- and off-platform options in the context of Chile's centralized higher education platform, leveraging administrative data and two policy changes: an expansion of the number of on-platform slots by approximately 40% and the...
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Late Bloomers : The Aggregate Implications of Getting Education Later in Life
Bárány, Zsófia L.; Buchinsky, Moshe; Corblet, Pauline - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
It is generally agreed upon that most individuals who acquire a college degree do so in their early 20s. Despite this consensus, we show that in the US from the 1930 birth cohort onwards a large fraction - around 20% - of college graduates obtained their degree after age 30. We explore the...
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College Cost and Time to Complete a Degree : Evidence from Tuition Discontinuities
Garibaldi, Pietro - 2007
Many students enrolled in academic programs around the world take longer to obtain a degree than the normal completion time while college tuition is typically constant during the years of enrollment. In particular, it does not increase when a student remains in a program beyond the normal...
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Promoting Public Health with Blunt Instruments : Evidence from Vaccine Mandates
Abouk, Rahi; Earle, John S.; Maclean, Johanna Catherine; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the effect of mandates requiring COVID-19 vaccination among healthcare industry workers adopted in 2021 in the United States. There are long-standing worker shortages in the U.S. healthcare industry, pre-dating the COVID-19 pandemic. The impact of COVID-19 vaccine mandates on shortages...
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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 …
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Paying Your Fair Share : Perceived Fairness and Tax Compliance
Nathan, Brad C.; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo; Zentner, Alejandro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We provide evidence on the role of fairness for tax compliance: households are willing to pay more in taxes if they … experiment in the context of property taxes in the United States. We induced exogenous shocks to households' perceptions about … the average household, a taxpayer is willing to pay an extra $0.43 in his or her own taxes …
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Externalities of Policy-Induced Scrappage : The Case of Automotive Regulations
Forsythe, Connor R.; Jha, Akshaya; Michalek, Jeremy J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Many transportation policies indirectly affect vehicle travel and resulting externalities by inducing changes in vehicle scrappage rates. We leverage the staggered removal of state-level safety inspection programs across the United States within an instrumental variables (IV) framework to...
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Industrial Land Discount in China : A Public Finance Perspective
He, Zhiguo; Nelson, Scott T.; Su, Yang; Zhang, Anthony Lee - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
China's land market features a substantial industrial discount: industrial-zoned land is an order of magnitude cheaper than residential land. In contrast to explanations centered on subsidies to industry or promoting industry growth, we emphasize the importance of future tax revenues from the...
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Bottlenecks for Evidence Adoption
Della Vigna, Stefano; Kim, Woojin; Linos, Elizabeth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Governments increasingly use RCTs to test innovations before scale up. Yet, we know little about whether and how they incorporate the results of the experiments into policy-making. We follow up with 67 U.S. city departments which collectively ran 73 RCTs in collaboration with a national Nudge...
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