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, consequently, the optimal subsidy, are largely unknown. Policy, therefore, is unlikely to have induced efficient solar investments … damages avoidable by solar capacity in each U.S. zip code, (2) relates these external benefits to subsidy levels in each U … vary considerably across the U.S., and to largely spillover to neighboring states. Subsidy levels are essentially …
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subsidy awards and depressed the influence of their corruption-related expenditures. We also examine the impact of these …
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subsidy to infrastructure as an asset class, which we estimate within the range of $730 million to $3.16 billion per year …
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We construct a structural model of entry into self-employment to evaluate the impact of policies supporting entrepreneurship. Previous work has recognized that workers may opt for self-employment due to the non-pecuniary benefits of running a business and not necessarily because they are good at...
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In 2008, Uganda granted hundreds of small groups $400/person to help members start individual skilled trades. Four years on, an experimental evaluation found grants raised earnings by 38% (Blattman, Fiala, Martinez 2014). We return after 9 years to find these start-up grants acted more as a...
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exploit a natural experiment in which wind farm developers could choose an investment or an output subsidy to estimate the … farms claiming the investment subsidy produced 10 to 12 percent less power than wind farms claiming the output subsidy, and … that this effect reflects subsidy incentives rather than selection. Introducing investment subsidies caused the Federal …
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optimal subsidy schedule that features heterogeneity in consumer preferences and inertia, and firms with heterogeneous costs … that can set prices and product characteristics in response to changes in the subsidy. We apply it to the Medicare …
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This paper provides the first, comprehensive evidence on the question of whether the subsidized flood insurance rates are needed to meet the affordability goal of the National Flood Insurance Program. We use IRS records at the zip code level from 2009 to 2016 to compare the real median incomes...
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The majority of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China were privatized through ownership reforms over the last two decades. Using a comprehensive dataset of all medium and large enterprises in China between 1998 and 2013, we show that privatized SOEs continue to benefit from government support...
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The Chinese government has been using various subsidies to encourage innovations by Chinese firms. This paper examines the allocation and impacts of innovation subsidies, using the data from the China Employer Employee Survey (CEES). We find that the innovation subsidies are preferentially...
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