International Studies Program
IV Summer School in Public Economics (2008)
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Presentations and Recommended Readings
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Research in Fiscal Federalism Issues (David Wildasin)
- Efficiency and Equalization Payments in a Federal System of Government: A Synthesis and Extension of Recent Results
- Externalities and Bailouts: Hard and Soft Budget Constraints in Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations
- Fiscal Federalism
- Medicaid Expenditures and State Budgets: Past, Present, and Future
- State government cash and in-kind benefits: Intergovernmental fiscal transfers and cross-program substitution
- The Dynamics of Municipal Fiscal Adjustment
- The effects of partisan alignment on the allocation of intergovernmental transfers: Differences-in-differences estimates for Spain
- The Institutions of Federalism: Toward an Analytical Framework
- Using a discontinuous grant rule to identify the effect of grants on local taxes and spending
New Trends in Fiscal Management and Budgeting (Don Kettl)
Research in Urban Economics and Local Finance (David Sjoquist)
Quantitative Techniques in Public Economics (Brian Erard)
- Alternative Approaches to Evaluation in Empirical Microeconomics
- Does matching overcome LaLonde’s critique of nonexperimental estimators?
- Incentive effects of social assistance: A regression discontinuity approach
- Instrumental Variables and the Search for Identification: From Supply and Demand to Natural Experiments
- Labor Supply Response to the Earned Income Tax Credit
- Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast-Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania
- Randomized experiments from non-random selection in U.S. House elections
- Taxation with representation: An analysis of the role of tax practitioners in tax compliance
- Taxpayer response to an increased probability of audit: evidence from a controlled experiment in Minnesota
- The Incidence of Mandated Maternity Benefits
- Using Maimonides’ Rule to Estimate the Effect of Class Size on Scholastic Achievement
Evaluating Public Policies: The Case of Work-Based Safety Network (John Karl Scholz)
- Employment-Based Tax Credits for Low-Skilled Workers
- Examining the Effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit on the Labor Market Participation of Families on Welfare
- Pathways to Self Sufficiency for Low-income Families
- Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers
Research on Capital Taxation Issues (Alan Auerbach)
- Generalized Cash-Flow Taxation
- Taxing Corporate Income
- Who Bears the Corporate Tax? A Review of What We Know
Research in Regional Development and Economic Convergence (Andres Rodriguez-Pose)
- Mountains in a flat world: why proximity still matters for the location of economic activity
- Regional (Di)Convergence
- Regional Convergence, inequality, and space
Research in Cultural Economics (Bruce Seaman)
- Competition and the Non-Profit Arts: The Lost Industrial Organization Agenda
- Contracts between Art and Commerce
Research on Gender Issues (Janet Currie)
- Biology as Destiny? Short- and Long- Run Determinants of Intergenerational Transmission of Birth Weight
- Do Women Shy Away from Competition? Do Men Compete Too Much?
- Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of "Blind" Auditions on Female Musicians
- Sex Discrimination in Restaurant Hiring: An Audit Study
- Swimming Upstream: Trends in the Gender Wage Differential in the 1980s
- The Demand for Sons: Evidence from Divorce, Fertility, and Shotgun Marriage
- The Division of Spoils: Rent-Sharing and Discrimination in a Regulated Industry
- The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the College Gender Gap
- Women in the Labor Market and in the Family
Modeling Creative Development with an Application to Research in Tax Compliance (Jonathan Feinstein)
- Creative Interests and Conceptions of Creative Interests
- Creative Interests Assignment
- Creativity & The Economic System
Research in Environmental Economics and Public Policy (Ron Cummings)
- Building a Foundation for Water Quality Trading in Georgia
- Water Rights Transfer: Options For Institutional Reform
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