Donald Frey shows that estimates of cost savings induced by tuition tax credits are very sensitive to the demand and supply elasticities for private education. Conse quently the authors survey the literatures on these elasticities to try to determine an appropriate range. They also develop...

Previous literature has found that politically conservative individuals express a lower willingness to pay (WTP) for environmental goods than left-wing supporters. Using data from three surveys valuing water we investigate the role of context by evaluating whether the means of provision (public...

This paper studies nonlinear, threshold, models in which some of the regressors can be endogenous. An estimation strategy based on instrumental variables was originally developed for dynamic panel models and we extend it to time series models. We apply this methodology to a forward-looking...

In this paper, we provide alternative derivations of the Gini index for a quadratic Pen's parade without imposing unnecessary restrictions on its parameters. It turns out that in sufficiently large samples the reference value of the Gini index for a quadratic Pen's parade is 1/2 (as opposed to...

Industrial water use is an important part of most developed economies' total water use and one which is differentiated from other sectors' water use by the prevalence of recycling. Previous research applied to cross sectional surveys has identified the role of input prices and the scale of plant...