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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"Public Economics"”.
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Essays in Public Economics
The first chapter sheds new light on the desirability of the minimum wage in the presence of optimal income taxation. Using a search-and-matching framework, I derive a novel condition that links the desirability of the minimum wage to three sufficient statistics: (1) the macro labor force …
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Essays In Public Economics
… consists of two chapters on topics in public economics. In the first chapter, I study the conflict over the provision of multiple public goods in U.S. cities. I use a rich dataset of municipal spending and Census micro-data to provide evidence that different demographic groups do indeed …
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Essays In Public Economics
… consists of three chapters on topics in public economics. The first chapter examines the labor market for public school teachers in Wisconsin. By stitching together publicly available cross-sectional data to form a 20-year panel of teachers, I am able to replicate and extend the work of …
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Essays on Public Economics
This dissertation gathers three essays on public economics. The first chapter studies the effects of local income taxation on tax base and individual mobility since the early 2000s in Italy. I combine novel fine-grained data on the universe of tax residence’s transfers with 89,860 local income tax …
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Essays in Public Economics
… in the mobility model to affect provision of the public good. This new effect depends on whether the jurisdictions are net exporters or net importers of capital. Thus, in a symmetric set up, the mobility effect along with the pecuniary externality disappear, yielding unambiguous underprovision of …
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Empirical Essays in Public Economics
… and rich microdata to identify causal effects of public interventions that speak directly to the goals outlined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Specifically, the first chapter analyzes the effect of public child care provision on mothers’ career trajectories, focusing on the timing …
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Three Essays in Public Economics
Local public services often must compete for funding from their providing governments. Public libraries have also had to endure the rise of large bookstores offering similar services. This may have motivated libraries to behave in a more cost efficient manner. Alternatively, monitoring of libraries …
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Three Essays in Public Economics
The last essay is a survey and discussion about the core of an economy with production. With constant returns, equilibrium profits are zero and consequently the problem of profit distribution among members of a coalition does not arise. In the presence of decreasing returns to scale, however, …
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Three essays on public economics
… of rich and poor generates an efficiency loss in public consumption. As a result, a mixed community configuration may or may not be superior to a homogeneous configuration.
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Essays in behavioral public economics
… three chapters that study two main aspects of public economics. The title of my dissertation reflects the fact that an overarching theme in my research is in studying individual's behavior in order to learn how to improve public policy, beyond learning about how people behave in itself. My …
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Three essays in public economics
This thesis consists of three separate papers. In the first paper, using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), which has measures of both risk preferences and religiosity along with measures of many risky behaviors, I investigate the implications of the correlations among risk preferences, …
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Three Empirical Essays in Public Economics
… methods to investigate research questions in public economics (first two chapters) and to explore the use of deep learning to construct data useful in public economics and other fields (third chapter). The second and third chapters focus on Nevada. The first essay examines the elasticity …
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Essays in Experimental and Public Economics
<p>This dissertation focuses on two issues in Public Economics: public goods provision and</p><p>voting theory. It consists of three independent papers, with two using experimental</p><p>methodology and one using empirical data to examine the effectiveness of the models. In the following I briefly …
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Three essays in applied public economics
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Essays in urban and public economics
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Essays on Public Economics and Spatial Econometrics
… variables (budget balance, tax revenue, and public expenditure) and the spillover effect of conflict on the level of local jurisdictions. The first study provides an empirical investigation of fiscal interactions in the context of a developing country. I examined three fiscal components - …
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Three Essays on Labor and Public Economics
… of three chapters in the area of applied microeconomics. Using a variety of quasi-experimental research designs, they study the labor market effects of a wage subsidy in a highly informal economy, the impact of a tax-breaks program on small formal firms' entrance decision and the probability of …
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Three Essays on Public Economics and Policy
<p>This dissertation studies the effects of public programs that target at disadvantaged population. In particular, I examine the effects of these programs on individual well-being and whether these programs lead to behavior distortions. The dissertation consists of three essays that focus on …
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Essays in Health Care and Public Economics
… disparities in access to health care, including public health insurance, subsidies, and health insurance mandates on employers, insurers, and private citizens. This paper focuses on an alternative but complementary way of bringing medical care to medically underserved populations: community …
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