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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 these requirements involves trade-offs between higher administrative costs, delayed benefits, and exclusion of genuine beneficiaries on one hand and lower fraud on the other. We...
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Investment Ramifications of Distortionary Tax Subsidies
Hines, James R, Jr - 1998
This paper examines the investment effects of tax subsidies for which some assets and not others are eligible …. Distortionary tax subsidies encourage firms to concentrate investments in tax-favored assets profitability of investment and …, which in turn discourages investment. Borrowing rates react so strongly that aggregate investment may rise very little, or …
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Do Green Users Become Green Voters?
Comin, Diego; Rode, Johannes - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We estimate the causal effect of the diffusion of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems on the fraction of Green Party votes in federal and state elections in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Our estimates are based on instruments that induce exogenous variation in roof appropriateness to PV installation....
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Tax Credits, the Distribution of Subsidized Health Insurance Premiums, and the Uninsured
Pauly, Mark V. - 2001
This paper investigates the impact of a $1000 refundable tax credit for self-only coverage on net premiums and insurance purchases for a representative sample of potential buyers in the individual insurance market. Two methods are used to estimate the distribution of premiums: predicted premiums...
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Taxing and Subsidizing Housing Investment : The Rise and Fall of Housing's Favored Status
Hendershott, Patric H. - 2000
This paper surveys and interprets a wide body of literature on the taxation and subsidization of investment in owner …
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Investment Subsidies and Wages in Capital Goods Industries : To the Workers Go the Spoils?
Goolsbee, Austan - 1998
This paper looks at the impact of investment tax subsidies on the labor market for capital goods workers using data … from the 1979-88 Current Population Survey. The results show that investment subsidies drive up the wages of workers who … produce capital goods relative to other manufacturing workers. A 10% investment tax credit, for example, raises the relative …
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Balladurette and Juppette : A Discrete Analysis of Scrapping Subsidies
Adda, Jerome - 1997
This paper studies the effects of subsidies on durable goods markets. In particular, we study a recent policy in France in which the governments of Balladur and Jupp‚ subsidized the replacement of old cars with new ones. To study this policy, we construct a dynamic stochastic discrete choice...
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Subsidies to Industry and the Environment
Kelly, David - 2009
productive use, the economy wide marginal product of emissions falls with an increase in any subsidy, tending to decrease …
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Is the EITC Equivalent to an NIT? Conditional Cash Transfers and Tax Incidence
Rothstein, Jesse - 2009
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is intended to encourage work. But EITC-induced increases in labor supply may drive wages down, shifting the intended transfer toward employers. I simulate the economic incidence of the EITC under a range of plausible supply and demand elasticities. In all of...
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Taxes and Health Insurance
Gruber, Jonathan - 2001
A common prescription for reducing the number of uninsured is to increase the tax subsidization of health insurance in the U.S. Yet, we already provide over $100 billion per year in tax subsidies to health insurance. This paper provides an assessment of the past and potential impacts of taxation...
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