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    • Schools, Neighborhoods, and the Long-Run Effect of Crime-Prone Peers 
      Billings, Stephen B.; Hoekstra, Mark (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2019-08-20)
      There is a large and growing literature on how childhood peers shape outcomes. However, within this literature little is known about the effects of the different neighborhood factors, such as the relative importance of ...
    • Schools, Neighborhoods, and the Long-Run Effect of Crime-Prone Peers 
      Hoekstra, Mark; Billings, Stephen B. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2019-10-10)
      Although it is well known that childhood peers affect future outcomes, little is known about the effects of different neighborhood factors. In working paper 1909, PERC’s Rex Grey Professor Mark Hoekstra and coauthor ...
    • The Signs of the Times 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2023-01-31)
      The past year, we experienced the highest inflation rates in forty years. Recession fears have been on the rise in recent months even as inflation rates have started to turn a corner. In this issue of PERCspectives on ...
    • Social Security Wealth and Federal Liabilities 
      Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2021-02-15)
      In the U.S., wealth inequality has risen in recent years. However, past estimates of wealth inequality tend to ignore Social Security benefits – even though these accrued benefits are almost 40% of the size of conventional ...
    • Social Security Wealth and Federal Liabilities 
      Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-10-27)
      This study identifies Social Security wealth as accrued benefits based on past participation in the program. This definition is similar to accrued pension wealth associated with defined benefit plans. Accrued Social Security ...
    • State Dependence of Monetary Policy Across Business, Credit and Interest Rate Cycles 
      Alpanda, Sami; Granziera, Eleonora; Zubairy, Sarah (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-04-28)
      In this paper, PERC Professor Sarah Zubairy, along with co-authors Sami Alpanda and Eleonora Granziera study how phases of the business, credit and interest rate cycles affect the transmission of monetary policy using ...
    • State Dependent Government Spending Multipliers: Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity and Sources of Business Cycle Fluctuations 
      Zubairy, Sarah; Jo, Yoon J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2021-02-01)
      The recent period of low interest rates have shown that fiscal policies have become crucial for economic recovery. This paper shows that the source of business cycle fluctuations matters for determining the size of government ...
    • Statistics of Income County-to-County Migration Data: An Overview 
      Narkiewicz, Adam (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-03-01)
      The aim of this document is to present some basic information and general trends in the data used to create the PERC county-to-county migration overview map. As such, the analysis is limited only to variables used on the ...
    • Staying the Course or Rolling the Dice: Time Horizon’s Effect on the Propensity to Take Risk 
      Liu, Liqun; Rettenmaier, Andrew J.; Saving, Thomas R. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2019-02-06)
      Is the old adage that states that the young take more risk than the old correct? In PERC Working Paper 1902, authors Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas R. Saving investigate this conventional wisdom in the context ...
    • Stochastic Superiority 
      Liu, Liqun; Meyer, Jack (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2021-05-06)
      This paper introduces a definition of stochastic superiority. One random variable is stochastically superior to another whenever it stochastically dominates the other after the risk in each random variable has been optimally ...
    • Strict Voter Identification Laws, Turnout, and Election Outcomes 
      Hoekstra, Mark; Koppa, Vijetha (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2019-08-20)
      Since 2000, ten states have enacted strict voter identification laws, which require that voters show identification in order for their votes to count. While proponents argue these laws prevent voter fraud and protect the ...
    • Tax Prices and Charitable Giving: Projected Changes in Donations Under the 2017 TCJA 
      Meer, Jonathan; Priday, Benjamin A. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-02-25)
      The Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 made significant changes to the rate structure of the Internal Revenue Code of the United States, including the near-doubling of the standard deduction. Many taxpayers who normally itemize ...
    • Tax Prices and Charitable Giving: Projected Changes in Donations Under the 2017 TCJA 
      Meer, Jonathan; Priday, Benjamin A. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2019-11-22)
      We estimate the tax price elasticity of charitable giving using newly-available data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics spanning 2001-2017. We find that households that always itemize are less sensitive to changes in ...
    • Tax Reform... 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Liu, Liqun; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2018-01-18)
      The passage of the biggest tax reform bill in decades, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, comes with a substantial cut in the corporate tax rate and vast changes to the individual income tax code. In the PERCspectives on Policy ...
    • Taxation in the Fifty States, With Special Attention on the Lone Star State 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Neumann, Corbin J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2018-03-30)
      State taxes have been in the news nationally due to changes in the deductibility of state income taxes on federal income tax returns, as well as locally, as citizens in Texas and other states protest rising property taxes. ...
    • Taxing Wealth 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Liu, Liqun; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-01-29)
      During this presidential primary season, several candidates have proposed a tax on the wealthy to fund platform promises. There is certainly appeal for a wealth tax, as these proposed taxes are seen as a tax on someone ...
    • Testing Risk Dominance and Payoff Dominance in Repeated Global Stag Hunt Games 
      Van Huyck, John; Viriyavipart, Ajalavat (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2014-04-01)
      In any 22 global game, Carlsson and van Damme (1993b) showed that the game has a unique dominance solvable equilibrium that corresponds to the risk dominant equilibrium of the related common knowledge game with multiple ...
    • Testing Risk Dominance and Payoff Dominance in Repeated Global Stag Hunt Games 
      Van Huyck, John; Viriyavipart, Ajalavat (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-01-01)
      This article was published as part of the PERCspectives on Research Newsletter, Winter 2015 Edition.
    • Texas Movers 
      Rettenmaier, Andrew J.; Saving, Thomas R. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2017-09-01)
      Population grows if migration into a state exceeds the migration out, combined with the natural increase of births over deaths. From 2010 - 2016, Texas had the largest population increase of any state, amassing almost 28 ...
    • Texas Movers - Migration and Income Along the Border 
      Navarro, Carlos I. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2018-10-01)
      Not only are Texas residents among the most mobile in the nation, but over a million Texans move from one county to another within the state. This brings important questions to the table regarding urban, education, healthcare, ...