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Global Mobility and the Threat of Pandemics : Evidence from Three Centuries

Clemens, Michael A.; Ginn, Thomas - 2021

Countries restrict the overall extent of international travel and migration to balance the expected costs and benefits … respond? A simple theoretical framework predicts that reduced exposure to pre-pandemic international mobility causes slightly … 2009. We find that in all cases, even a draconian 50 percent reduction in pre-pandemic international mobility is associated …

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Should Easier Access to International Credit Replace Foreign Aid?

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2011

hypotheses empirically. Our main findings are that: (i) better access to international credit for a recipient country reduces the … amount of foreign aid it receives, and (ii) there is a critical level of international financial transfer, and the marginal …

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Good Governance and Good Aid Allocation

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2021

We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...

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Public Goods, Transferable Utility and Divorce Laws

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Iyigun, Murat; Weiss, Yoram - 2021

We reconsider the well known Becker-Coase (BC) argument, according to which changes in divorce laws should not affect divorce rates, in the context of households which consume public goods in addition to private goods. For this result to hold, utility must be transferable both within marriage...

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Privacy, Time Consistent Optimal Labor Income Taxation and Education Policy

Konrad, Kai A. - 2011

Incomplete information is a commitment device for time consistency problems. In the context of time consistent labor income taxation privacy can lead to a Pareto superior outcome and increases the effectiveness of public education as a second best policy

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Optimal Taxation with Multiple Incomes and Types

Spiritus, Kevin; Lehmann, Etienne; Renes, Sander; … - 2022

We analyze the optimal nonlinear income tax schedule when taxpayers earn multiple incomes and differ along many unobserved dimensions. We derive the necessary conditions for the government s optimum using both a tax perturbation and a mechanism design approach, and show that both methods produce...

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Some Welfare Economics of Working Time

FitzRoy, Felix R.; Jin, Jim Y. - 2022

Few skilled workers in the UK have flexible working time GPs are the exception most can only choose between unemployment, or full-time work, which has changed little in recent years, while part time work is mainly unskilled. This market rigidity imposes major welfare losses, in contrast to...

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The Accident Externality from Trucking

Muehlenbachs, Lucija A. - 2017

How much risk does a heavy truck impose on highway safety? To answer this question, we look at the rapid influx of trucks during the shale gas boom in Pennsylvania. Using quasi-experimental variation in truck traffic, we isolate the effect of adding a truck to the road. We find an additional...

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Should the Rich Be Taxed More? The Fiscal Inequality Coefficient

Hatgioannides, John - 2017

This paper holistically addresses the effective (relative) income tax contribution of a given in-come (or, wealth) group. The widely acclaimed standard in public policy is the absolute benefaction of a given income group in filling up the fiscal coffers. Instead, we focus on the ratio of the...

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Quasi-Experimental Methods in Environmental Economics : Opportunities and Challenges

Deschênes, Olivier - 2018

This paper examines the application of quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics. We begin with two observations: i) standard quasi-experimental methods, first applied in other microeconomic fields, typically assume unit-level treatments that do not spill over across units; (ii)...

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