This paper uses data on Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) reminding letters sent by the Israel Tax Authority to potentially eligible applicants during the period 2008-2011. Using a setup of repeated letters sent to the applicants, we are able to identify whether individuals apply for receiving the...

The Japanese Ministry of Environment is promoting green purchasing policies across all levels of Japanese government. A primary reason is that green purchasing policies have the potential to significantly reduce carbon impacts across the globe and can help Japan achieve its carbon emissions...

Jurisprudential-regimes theory argued that scholars could detect effects of legal doctrine on Supreme Court decision-making by analyzing major changes in legal doctrine. Critics of JRT have argued that it constitutes a simple statistical artifact, and that appropriate analyses find no such...

The present paper studies the growth and efficiency consequences of pension funding with individual retirement accounts in a general equilibrium overlapping generations model with idiosyncratic lifespan and labor income uncertainty. We distinguish between economies with rational and hyperbolic...

The life-cycle hypothesis implies that consumption would not decline at retirement. However, several studies found relevant declines in food consumption after retirement for the United States. Others concluded that this contradiction of the life-cycle hypothesis is solved by allowing for broader...