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Ethnic Diversity and Public Goods : Evidence from U.S. Municipalities and School Districts, 2000-2010
Lee, Soomi - 2016
This paper examines the claim that ethnic heterogeneity reduces government spending on various local public goods. Our analysis suggests that higher ethnic heterogeneity does not necessarily reduce local public spending due to two factors: (1) the low price elasticity of demand for local public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006122
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Regulating Untaxable Externalities : Are Vehicle Air Pollution Standards Effective and Efficient?
Jacobsen, Mark R.; Sallee, James M.; Shapiro, Joseph S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
transportation, and counterfactual policies. We show that the air pollution emissions per mile of new US vehicles has fallen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477194
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The Size of U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Rappaport, Jordan; Humann, McKenzie - 2021
Metropolitan areas --unions of nearby built-up locations within which people travel on a day-to-day basis among places of residence, employment, and consumption--serve as a fundamental unit of economic analysis. But existing delineations of U.S. metro areas--including metropolitan Core-Based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222435
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The High-Speed Rail Money Sink : Why the United States Should Not Spend Trillions on Obsolete Technology
Institute, Cato; O'Toole, Randal - 2021
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s proposal to make the United States a “world leader” in high‐​speed rail … particularly poorly timed considering that the COVID-19 pandemic has made many people question mass transportation in general. One … lesson of the pandemic is that the most resilient transportation system we have is motor vehicles and highways. Rather than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232626
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Ride-Sharing Markets Re-Equilibrate
Hall, Jonathan; Horton, John J.; Knoepfle, Daniel T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Following Uber-initiated fare increases, drivers make more money per trip and, initially, more per hour-worked. Drivers begin to work more hours. However, this increase in hours-worked--combined with a reduction in demand from a higher fare--has a business stealing effect, with drivers spending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226179
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Walking a tightrope : are US state and local governments on a fiscally sustainable path?
Zhao, Bo; Coyne, David - 2013 - This version: December 2013
This paper develops a new measure of state and local fiscal sustainability called the "trend gap," which is based on socioeconomic and other fundamental factors and removes the short-term influence of the business cycle. The paper estimates the trend gap and finds that the nationwide per capita...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010233694
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Walking a Tightrope : Are U.S. State and Local Governments on a Fiscally Sustainable Path?
Zhao, Bo - 2014
This paper develops a new measure of state and local fiscal sustainability called the "trend gap," which is based on socioeconomic and other fundamental factors and removes the short-term influence of the business cycle. The paper estimates the trend gap and finds that the nationwide per capita...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059942
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014054229
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Inequality and poverty in the United States : public policies for inclusive growth
Denk, Oliver; Hagemann, Robert P.; Lenain, Patrick; … - 2013
Income inequality and relative poverty in the United States are among the highest in the OECD and have substantially increased over the past decades. These developments have been associated with a number of other worrying statistics, including low intergenerational social mobility and weak real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009767746
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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 yields the marginal effect of any shift of market income share from one quintile to another on the entire post tax, post-transfer income distribution. We identify exogenous income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544770