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Life and Death in the Fast Lane : Police Enforcement and Traffic Fatalities

Hansen, Benjamin; DeAngelo, Gregory J. - 2013

This paper estimates the causal effect of police on traffic fatalities and injuries. Due to simultaneity, estimating …

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Measuring the value of a statistical life : problems and prospects

Ashenfelter, Orley (contributor) - 2006

measure that is widely used for the evaluation of public policies in medicine, the environment, and transportation safety …Tradeoffs between monetary wealth and fatal safety risks are summarized in the value of a statistical life (VSL), a … issues to a particular study of speed limits and highway safety. -- value of a statistical life ; speed limits ; safety risks …

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Measuring the Value of a Statistical Life : Problems and Prospects

Ashenfelter, Orley - 2006

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Fiscal competition and the composition of public expenditure : an empirical study

Winner, Hannes - In: Contemporary economics 6 (2012) 3, pp. 38-54

This paper investigates whether fiscal competition affects the structure of public spending, where theory predicts a shift from residential public goods to industrial public goods. We propose an empirical model that specifically accounts for the strategic nature and endogeneity of fiscal...

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Fiscal Competition and the Composition of Public Expenditure : An Empirical Study

Winner, Hannes - 2012

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Using Market Valuation to Access the Importance and Efficiency of Public School Spending

Barrow, Lisa; Rouse, Cecilia E. - 2000

In this paper we take a "market-based" approach to examine whether increased school expenditures are valued by potential residents and whether the current level of public school provision is inefficient. We do so by employing an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the effect of state...

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A Value-Added Estimate of Higher Education Quality of U.S. States

Zhang, Lei - 2011

States differ substantially in higher education policies. Little is known about the effects of state policies on the performance of public colleges and universities, largely because no clear measures of college quality exist. In this paper, I estimate the average quality of public colleges of...

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Measuring the social discount rate under uncertainty : a methodology and application

Ahsan, Syed; Tsigaris, Panagiotis Demetrios - 2002

It is well recognised that the issue of the social rate of discount applies only to the gains from public investment that accrues to the public sector. When it comes to measurement, however, there is a problem: public investment in infrastructure and the like do not usually yield direct...

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Measuring the social discount rate under uncertainty : a methodology and application

Ahsan, Syed M.; Tsigaris, Panagiotis - 2002

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New estimates of the value of a statistical life using air bag regulations as a quasi-experiment

Rohlfs, Chris; Sullivan, Ryan; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2012

Due to Federal regulations, automobile air bag availability was a model-specific discontinuous function of model year for used vehicles in the 1990s and early 2000s. We use these discontinuities and the gradual increase in the supply of air bags to trace out the demand curve for air bags and the...

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