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Ranking up by moving out : the effect of the Texas Top 10% Plan on property values
Cortes, Kalena E.; Friedson, Andrew I. - 2010
Texas engaged in a large-scale policy experiment when it instituted the Top 10% Plan. This policy guarantees automatic …
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The effects of state merit aid programs on attendance at elite colleges
Sjoquist, David L.; Winters, John V. - 2015
State merit aid programs have been found to reduce the likelihood that students attend college out-of-state. Using the U.S. News & World Report rankings of colleges and universities to measure college quality and Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System data to measure enrollment, we...
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Do bans on affirmative action hurt minority students? Evidence from the Texas Top 10% Plan
Cortes, Kalena E. - 2010
from affirmative action to the Top 10% Plan in Texas decreased both retention and graduation rates of lower-ranked minority … hypothesis. These results suggest that most of the increase in the graduation gap between minorities and non-minorities in Texas …
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Do bans on affirmative action hurt minority students? Evidence from the Texas Top 10% Plan
Cortes, Kalena E. - 2010
from affirmative action to the Top 10% Plan in Texas decreased both retention and graduation rates of lower-ranked minority …' hypothesis. These results suggest that most of the increase in the graduation gap between minorities and non-minorities in Texas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288010
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Uniform admissions, unequal access: did the Top 10% Plan increase access to selective flagship institutions?
Cortes, Kalena E.; Klasik, Daniel - 2020
The Top 10% Plan admissions policy has now been in place in Texas for over two decades. We analyze 18 years of post …-Top 10% Plan data to look for evidence of increased access to the selective Texas flagship campuses among all Texas high … schools. We provide a detailed description of changes in enrollment patterns at the flagship campuses from Texas high schools …
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Weakly progressive : disproportionate higher education attendance and the structure of income taxes
Gubello, Michele; Strecker, Nora Margot - 2022
This paper studies the effect of income tax progressivity on the disproportionate usage of publicly funded higher education. We develop a rational choice model showing that more progressive tax systems increase poorer households' net fiscal benefit, making their children more likely to attend...
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Relocation of the rich : migration in response to top tax rate changes from Spanish reforms
Agrawal, David R.; Foremny, Dirk - 2018
A recent Spanish tax reform granted regions the authority to set income tax rates, resulting in substantial tax differentials. We use individual-level information from Social Security records over a period of one decade. Conditional on moving, taxes have a significant effect on location choice....
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Capitalization as a two-part tariff : the role of zoning
Banzhaf, H. Spencer; Mangum, Kyle - 2019
This paper shows that the capitalization of local amenities is effectively priced into land via a two-part pricing formula: a \ticket" price paid regardless of the amount of housing service consumed and a \slope" price paid per unit of services. We first show theoretically how tickets arise as...
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The (economic) effects of lay participation in courts : a cross-country analysis
Voigt, Stefan - 2008
Legal philosophers like Montesquieu, Hegel and Tocqueville have argued that lay participation in judicial decision-making would have benefits reaching far beyond the realm of the legal system narrowly understood. From an economic point of view, lay participation in judicial decision-making can...
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National and sub-national social distancing responses to COVID-19
Iverson, Terrence W.; Barbier, Edward - 2020
This paper examines the effectiveness of sub-national actions to control a novel disease, such as COVID-19, in the absence of a national policy. Evidence is emerging that countries where subnational governments have undertaken unilateral social distancing measures to combat the pandemic with...
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