Browsing PERC Publications by Title

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    • Navigating the Earned Income Tax Credit 
      Liu, Liqun; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2017-09-01)
      The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the federal government's largest means-tested cash assistance program. The popular anti-poverty program's maximum credits and income eligibility ranges have been legislatively increased ...
    • A Neglected Aspect of Tax Reform: Improving the Efficiency of Tax Expenditures on Employer-Provided Health Insurance 
      Liu, Liqun; Rettenmaier, Andrew J.; Saving, Thomas R. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2017-11-01)
      The House recently passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and the Senate now begins debate on its version of tax reform. Debate has centered on the tax reform's potential negative revenue effects and its disparate treatment of ...
    • Networking the Yield Curve: Implications for Monetary Policy 
      Sekhposyan, Tatevik; Dahlhaus, Tatjana; Schaumburg, Julia (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2021-05-06)
      In this working paper, authors Tatevik Sekhposyan, Tatjana Dahlhaus, and Julia Schaumburg introduce a flexible, time-varying network model to trace the propagation of interest rate surprises across different maturities. ...
    • Nonlinear Evidence on the Existence of Jobless Recoveries 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Bradley, Michael D. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-07-01)
      The sluggish growth in employment following the Great Recession has spurred research into investigating its cause. Economists are split as to whether it reflects the advent of “jobless recoveries� or just reflects ...
    • Optimal Interregional Redistribution and Local Borrowing Rules under Migration and Asymmetric Information 
      Liu, Liqun; Dai, Darong; Tian, Guoqiang (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2019-09-16)
      Assuming two types of regions that differ only in the discount rate, Huber and Runkel (2008) show that optimal federal redistribution is from impatient to patient regions, and optimal local public debt is higher in impatient ...
    • Optimal Regional Insurance Provision: Do Federal Transfers Complement Local Debt? 
      Liu, Liqun; Dai, Darong; Tian, Guoqiang (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2019-11-01)
      Intergovernmental grants implemented by the central government of a federal fiscal system are justified on the grounds that they internalize interregional spillovers generated by local public goods provision or ...
    • Optimality of Winner-Take-All Contests: The Role of Attitudes Toward Risk 
      Liu, Liqun; Treich, Nicolas (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2019-12-16)
      It has been established in the literature that, under the assumption of risk-neutral contestants, it is usually optimal for an effort maximizing contest organizer with a fixed prize budget to award everything to a single ...
    • An Overview of the Economic Performance of States in the U.S. from 2010-2022 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Kim, Joon Hwa (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2023-07-18)
      Questions about economic performance are some of the most frequently asked questions posed to economists. This paper illustrates the relative performance of states over 2010-2022 in terms of RGDP growth, population growth, ...
    • An Overview of the Economic Performance of Texas MSAs from 2010-2021 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Kim, Joon Hwa (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2023-07-18)
      Questions about economic performance are some of the most frequently asked questions posed to economists. This paper illustrates the relative performance of states over 2010-2022 in terms of RGDP growth, population growth, ...
    • The Pandemic and Texas State Tax Revenue 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2021-01-22)
      Government budgets have undergone drastic changes due to the coronavirus pandemic. In this issue, authors Dennis W. Jansen and Andrew J. Rettenmaier share the state of Texas’ tax collections compared to previous years. ...
    • The Pandemic Federal Reserve: The First Two Years 
      Saving, Thomas R. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2022-06-07)
      Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, developed world governments engaged in unprecedented spending. Federal Reserve securities holdings were an astounding 36.5% of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product after two pandemic years. ...
    • The Pandemic Misery Index 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Navarro, Carlos I.; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2021-03-18)
      The Covid-19 pandemic has brought with it both human and economic loss. The Pandemic Misery Index, or PMI, is a simple metric that measures the effectiveness of pandemic-related public policies by combining the unemployment ...
    • Pandemic Misery Index: States and Texas MSAs 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Navarro, Carlos I.; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-09-25)
      How does Texas’ response to the coronavirus pandemic compare to that of other states? In this issue of PERCspectives on Policy, Dennis W. Jansen, Carlos I. Navarro, and Andrew J. Rettenmaier discuss which states, and ...
    • Paying for Medicare Now and in the Future 
      Rettenmaier, Andrew J.; Saving, Thomas R. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-03-01)
      Medicare celebrated its golden anniversary this past year. The program now provides insurance coverage for over 50 million Americans, and accounts for 20 percent of the nation's health care spending. Its shares of the ...
    • Peer Quality and Benefits to Attending Better Schools 
      Hoekstra, Mark; Wang, Yaojing; Mounganie, Pierre (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2017-05-01)
      Despite strong demand for attending high schools with better peers, there is mixed evidence on whether doing so improves academic outcomes. The authors estimate the cognitive returns to high school quality using administrative ...
    • Peer Quality and the Academic Benefits to Attending Better Schools 
      Hoekstra, Mark; Mouganie, Pierre; Wang, Yaojing (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-09-18)
      Despite strong demand for attending high schools with better peers, there is mixed evidence on whether doing so improves academic outcomes. The authors estimate the cognitive returns to high school quality using administrative ...
    • Persistent Effects of Teacher-Student Gender Matches 
      Meer, Jonathan; Lim, Jaegeum (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2018-01-18)
      The absence of same gender role models in STEM fields has been shown to discourage female student participation in STEM fields of study. In PERC Working Paper 1706, Persistent Effects of Teacher-Student Gender Matches, ...
    • Persistent Effects of Teacher-Student Gender Matches 
      Meer, Jonathan; Lim, Jaegeum (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2017-08-23)
      The authors exploit data from middle schools in Seoul, South Korea, where students and teachers are randomly assigned to classrooms, and find that female students taught by a female versus a male teacher score higher on ...
    • Portfolio Choice in the Model of Expected Utility with a Safety-First Component 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Liu, Liqun (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-10-14)
      Whereas the majority of economists interpret risk as dispersion or variation in an outcome variable, many everyday decision makers tend to associate risk with the outcome failing to meet a certain “safety� level. In ...
    • Portfolio Choice in the Model of Expected Utility With a Safety-First Component 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Liu, Liqun (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2022-05-10)
      Whereas the majority of economists interpret risk as dispersion or variation in an outcome variable, many everyday decision makers tend to associate risk with the outcome failing to meet a certain “safety� level. Here, ...