We examine the impact on the employment and earnings of low-income families of federal and state increases in funding for child care and of the changing policies and administrative procedures within the Child-Care Subsidy system that accompanied these funding increases.

The Family Support Act allows states to reimburse child care costs up to the 75th percentile of the local market price for child care. For the state of Massachusetts, we developed a sampling design that equalized the standard errors of the estimated percentiles across 65 distinct local markets.

This paper studies employment patterns for low income workers receiving subsidized child care in Dade County, Florida. Florida has been an active state in welfare reform for several years. In July 1996, the AFDC program was supplanted in Florida by a new welfare program, Work and Gain Economic...

This paper considers the role of antitrust action in markets with negative externalities and the social welfare consequences of the 1911 break-up of American Tobacco. A theoretical model shows that monopoly can be the preferred market structure in some cases. We provide rough estimates of the...

Numerous studies over the years have attempted to identify the impact of amenities on housing price levels within specific metropolitan areas. It is well known, for example, that local public goods, tax burdens, school quality, crime rates and so forth are capitalized into land values.

This paper examines the effect of urban income uncertainty on urbal-to-rural and rural-to-urban remittances, as well as on the decision to migrate. It also explores whether remittances can be sustained in a noncooperative setting, and whether cooperative behaviour might emerge from individuals...

The concept of neighbourhood has been analyzed in many disciplines but there is little consensus on what constitutes a neighbourhood. The theoretical literature in housing economics suggests that neighbourhood characteristics are important in determining the value of a housing unit. Thus, to...

This paper investigates the implications of how states with initiative systems of legislation can use this more direct form of democracy to improve productive resource allocation by their goverments. We construct a simple growth model whereby we can identify this channel through which...