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Are Public Subsidies to Higher Education Regressive?
, 2005
"... Abstract: This paper estimates the dollar amount of public higher education subsidies received by U.S. youth and examines the distribution of subsidies and the taxes which finance them across parental and student income levels. Although youths from highincome families obtain more benefit from higher ..."
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Abstract: This paper estimates the dollar amount of public higher education subsidies received by U.S. youth and examines the distribution of subsidies and the taxes which finance them across parental and student income levels. Although youths from highincome families obtain more benefit from
The Impact of Internet Subsidies in Public Schools
, 2005
"... In an effort to alleviate the perceived growth of a digital divide, the U.S. government enacted a major subsidy for Internet and communications investment in schools starting in 1998. In this paper, we evaluate the effect of the subsidy—known as the E-Rate—on Internet investment in California public ..."
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In an effort to alleviate the perceived growth of a digital divide, the U.S. government enacted a major subsidy for Internet and communications investment in schools starting in 1998. In this paper, we evaluate the effect of the subsidy—known as the E-Rate—on Internet investment in California
Medicaid matching formula, federal subsidies, and Medicaid payments
, 1994
"... The federal government uses the Medicaid matching formula to distribute federal funds to states to finance various social welfare programs involving billions of dollars. How does the formula affect the distribution of federal money? How would that distribution change if arevised formula were used? T ..."
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? This article presents the results of aregression analysis on Medicaid payments in the states and the federal subsidies for states to finance Medicaid. The findings indicate that under the current Medicaid matching formula, fewer federal subsidy dollars per poor person go to states with lower per capita incomes
Bidding for industrial plants: does winning a “Million Dollar Plant” increase Welfare? National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper
- Journal of Political Economy (forthcoming
, 2004
"... Does Winning a ‘Million Dollar Plant ’ Increase Welfare? Increasingly, local governments compete by offering substantial subsidies to industrial plants to locate within their jurisdictions. This paper uses a novel research design to estimate the local consequences of successfully bidding for an indu ..."
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Does Winning a ‘Million Dollar Plant ’ Increase Welfare? Increasingly, local governments compete by offering substantial subsidies to industrial plants to locate within their jurisdictions. This paper uses a novel research design to estimate the local consequences of successfully bidding
THE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE PAYROLL TAX AND INTERINDUSTRY AND INTERFIRM SUBSIDIES
, 1992
"... Unemployment insurance (UI) in the U.S. is financed through a payroll tax that is imperfectly experience rated, and thus only partially reflects a firm's use of the system. As a result, certain firms and industries receive many more dollars in unemployment benefits than they pay in taxes. We do ..."
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Unemployment insurance (UI) in the U.S. is financed through a payroll tax that is imperfectly experience rated, and thus only partially reflects a firm's use of the system. As a result, certain firms and industries receive many more dollars in unemployment benefits than they pay in taxes. We
Market Entry costs, Producer Heterogeneity, and Export Dynamics
, 2001
"... As the exchange rate, foreign demand, production costs and export promotion policies evolve, manufacturing firms are continually faced with two issues: Whether to be an exporter, and if so, how much to export. We develop a dynamic structural model of export supply that characterizes these two decisi ..."
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on export revenues (per dollar spent) than subsidies that reduce the entry costs faced by new
Mortgage Default and Low Downpayment Loans: The Costs of Public Subsidy
- Regional Science and Urban Economics
, 1996
"... This paper presents a unified model of the default and prepayment behavior of homeowners in a proportional hazard framework. The model uses the option-based approach to analyze default and prepayment, and considers these two interdependent hazards as competing risks. The results indicate the sensiti ..."
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of the program would be much larger indeed. Our estimates suggest that additional program costs could be between $74,000 and $87,000 per million dollars of lending. If the expected losses from such a program were not priced at all, the losses from default alone could exceed ten percent of the funds made
The Paradox of Agricultural Subsidies: Measurement Issues, Agricultural Dumping, and Policy Reform Abstract
, 2004
"... World trade talks have foundered recently, in part due to developing country demands that industrialized countries reduce their large farm support programs to allow poor farmers in the global South to compete more fairly. Claiming that Northern farm subsidies amount to over $1 billion a day, and tha ..."
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, and that the average European cow receives more in subsidies than the nearly three billion people who live on less than two dollars a day, Southern governments, farmer groups, and international aid groups have demanded steep cuts in Northern agricultural subsidies. This paper examines the economic and policy aspects
International Association for Energy Economics | 31 The Political Economy of Oil Subsidy in Nigeria
"... Nigeria is blessed with vast quantities of oil and is the sixth largest oil exporter in OPEC. This has generated billions of dollars in revenues over the last fifty years since oil was found in Nigeria. How-ever, as in most developing countries, this has not translated into an improved welfare condi ..."
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Nigeria is blessed with vast quantities of oil and is the sixth largest oil exporter in OPEC. This has generated billions of dollars in revenues over the last fifty years since oil was found in Nigeria. How-ever, as in most developing countries, this has not translated into an improved welfare
No More Secret Candy Store: A Grassroots Guide to Investigating Development Subsidies
, 2001
"... Since No More Candy Store was published in 1994, the grassroots movement to reform economic development has continued to surge. Seeded in the mid-1980s by activists fighting plant closings, the movement has grown enormously to include tax and budget watchdogs, living wage campaigns, labor unions, co ..."
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dubbed “job blackmail ” – has become a fine art. Subsidies have become such an automatic “gimmee, ” they have changed the whole rationale public officials use to justify them. No longer do public officials speak of “leveraging ” private investment with public dollars; that is, bringing jobs to areas that
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