This paper examines the effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and welfare programs on the labor supply of single mothers. The EITC consists of an earning subsidy program in the form of marginal tax credits to the working poor. The presence of different marginal tax rates at the various...

Employing a unique quasi-experiment -- spillovers caused by the imposition of local house purchase restrictions to nearby non-regulated cities, we study the effects of out-of-town housing demand and policy spillovers. This quasi-experiment induces sharp increases in house prices but not local...

We analyse the relationship between the extent of a firm’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its long-term survival probability. We conjecture that a better CSR rating is associated with a lower probability of corporate failure and a longer survival period. Consistent with this, we...