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蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, November 2022

Gerrymandering in State Legislatures: Frictions from Axiomatic Bargaining

By Hisam Sabouni and Cameron A. Shelton

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, November 2022

Theories of partisan redistricting postulate unitary actors maximizing their party's expected seat share. Yet, the partition of a fixed supply of friendly voters necessarily implies a tragedy of the commons. We recast partisan redistricting as a bargainin...

Enhancing the Efficacy of Teacher Incentives through Framing: A Field Experiment

By Roland G. Fryer, Jr., Steven D. Levitt, John List, and Sally Sadoff

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, November 2022

In a field experiment, we provide financial incentives to teachers framed either as gains, received at the end of the year, or as losses, in which teachers receive up-front bonuses that must be paid back if their students do not improve sufficiently. Pool...

Health Care Rationing in Public Insurance Programs: Evidence from Medicaid

By Timothy J. Layton, Nicole Maestas, Daniel Prinz, and Boris Vabson

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, November 2022

We study two mechanisms used by public health insurance programs for rationing health care: outsourcing to private managed care plans and quantity limits for prescription drugs. Leveraging a natural experiment in Texas's Medicaid program, we find that the...

Do Two Electricity Pricing Wrongs Make a Right? Cost Recovery, Externalities, and Efficiency

By Severin Borenstein and James B. Bushnell

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, November 2022

Economists favor pricing pollution in part so that consumers face the full social marginal cost (SMC) of goods and services. But even absent externalities, retail electricity prices typically exceed private marginal cost, due to a utility's need to cover ...

Multinationals' Sales and Profit Shifting in Tax Havens

By 厂茅产补蝉迟颈别苍 Laffitte and Farid Toubal

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, November 2022

We show that US multinationals record sales and the profits from these sales in tax havens while their goods and services are physically sold in other countries. We propose a framework illustrating the strategy of sales shifting. Our results reveal the im...

Behavioral Responses to Wealth Taxes: Evidence from Switzerland

By Marius 叠谤耻虉濒丑补谤迟, Jonathan Gruber, Matthias Krapf, and Kurt Schmidheiny

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, November 2022

We study how declared wealth responds to changes in wealth tax rates. Exploiting rich intranational variation in Switzerland, we find a 1 percentage point drop in a canton's wealth tax rate raises reported taxable wealth by at least 43 percent after 6 yea...

The Hazards of Unwinding the Prescription Opioid Epidemic: Implications for Child Maltreatment

By Mary F. Evans, Matthew C. Harris, and Lawrence M. Kessler

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, November 2022

Child maltreatment has significant and long-lasting consequences. We examine how two interventions designed to curtail prescription opioid misuse, the reformulation of OxyContin and the implementation of must-access prescription drug monitoring programs (...

Your Place in the World: Relative Income and Global Inequality

By Dietmar Fehr, Johanna Mollerstrom, and Ricardo Perez-Truglia

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, November 2022

Although there is abundant evidence on individual preferences for policies that reduce national inequality, there is very little evidence on preferences for policies addressing global inequality. To investigate the latter, we conducted a two-year, face-to...

Reminders Work, but for Whom? Evidence from New York City Parking Ticket Recipients

By Ori Heffetz, Ted O'Donoghue, and Henry S. Schneider

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, November 2022

We investigate heterogeneity in responsiveness to reminder letters among New York City parking ticket recipients. Using variation in the timing of letters, we find a strong aggregate response. But we find large differences across individuals: those with a...

The Old-Age Security Motive for Fertility: Evidence from the Extension of Social Pensions in Namibia

By Pauline Rossi and Mathilde Godard

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, November 2022

The old-age security motive for fertility postulates that people's needs for old-age support raise the demand for children. We exploit the extension of social pensions in Namibia during the 1990s to provide a quasi-experimental quantification of this wide...

Mandatory Energy Efficiency Disclosure in Housing Markets

By Erica Myers, Steven L. Puller, and Jeremy West

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, November 2022

Mandatory disclosure policies are implemented broadly despite sparse evidence that they improve market outcomes. We study the effects of requiring home sellers to provide buyers with certified audits of residential energy efficiency. Using similar nearby ...

Can Nudges Increase Take-Up of the EITC? Evidence from Multiple Field Experiments

By Elizabeth Linos, Allen Prohofsky, Aparna Ramesh, Jesse Rothstein, and Matthew Unrath

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, November 2022

The Earned Income Tax Credit distributes more than $60 billion to over 20 million low-income families annually. Nevertheless, an estimated one-fifth of eligible households do not claim it. We ran six preregistered, large-scale field experiments with 1 mil...

Adviser Value Added and Student Outcomes: Evidence from Randomly Assigned College Advisers

By Serena Canaan, Antoine Deeb, and Pierre Mouganie

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, November 2022

This paper provides the first causal evidence on the impact of college advisor quality on student outcomes. To do so, we exploit a unique setting where students are randomly assigned to faculty advisors during their first year of college. We find that hig...

Optimal Regulation of E-cigarettes: Theory and Evidence

By Hunt Allcott and Charlie Rafkin

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, November 2022

We model optimal e-cigarette regulation and estimate key parameters. Using tax changes and scanner data, we estimate relatively elastic demand. A demographic shift-share identification strategy suggests limited substitution between e-cigarettes and cigare...

Hungry for Success? SNAP Timing, High-Stakes Exam Performance, and College Attendance

By Timothy N. Bond, Jillian B. Carr, Analisa Packham, and Jonathan Smith

蝌蚪网 Journal: Economic Policy, November 2022

Monthly government transfer programs create cycles of consumption that track the timing of benefit receipt. If these cycles correspond to critical moments for student learning and achievement, the timing of transfers may have important long-run implicatio...

How Merchant Towns Shaped Parliaments: From the Norman Conquest of England to the Great Reform Act

By Charles Angelucci, Simone Meraglia, and Nico 痴辞颈驳迟濒盲苍诲别谤

蝌蚪网 Review, October 2022

We study the emergence of urban self-governance in the late medieval period. We focus on England after the Norman Conquest of 1066, building a novel comprehensive dataset of 554 medieval towns. During the Commercial Revolution (twelfth to thirteenth centu...

Protecting vulnerable kids

[Research Highlight]

August 18, 2022

Joseph Doyle discusses the history and economics of foster care in the United States.

Trading places

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September 06, 2022

How much does trade impact urbanization?