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Migration Nation
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-01-01)
Every year thousands of Americans move across county lines. In general, non-migrants experience higher average incomes than their migrant counterparts. This issue of PERCspectives on Policy explores how migrants and ...
What Happened to Rosie?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-02-01)
Identifying the relationship between wartime work and women’s lifetime outcomes is difficult due to scant work histories from the 1940s. This study identifies “Rosie the Riveters� using data from the 1973 Current ...
Restricted Increases in Risk Aversion and Their Application
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-02-23)
This paper proposes two restricted forms of an increase in risk aversion. Using examples from portfolio choice, self-protection and insurance demand, it is shown that these stronger notions of increased risk aversion ...
Health Care Spending in the United States: What is Next?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-12-01)
Health care spending will always command public policy attention given the prominence of government payers in this market and the role played by the tax system in subsidizing health insurance purchases. But, with President-elect ...
Tradeoffs for Downside Risk-Averse Decision-Makers and the Self-Protection Decision
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-03-26)
Besides risk aversion, decision makers are often assumed to be downside risk averse. In order to investigate tradeoffs that downside risk averse decision makers face, this paper proposes five stochastic orders, each ...
Statistics of Income County-to-County Migration Data: An Overview
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 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 ...
Illegal Immigration, State Law, and Deterrence
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-09-01)
Can state and federal policies deter undocumented workers from entering the U.S.? In Working Paper 1604, PERC's Rex Grey Professor Mark Hoekstra, and Sandra Orozco-Aleman, address this timely and critical immigration policy ...
Interview with Dr. John Taylor
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-11-04)
Stanford University economist John B. Taylor was awarded the Kirby Distinguished Visiting Professorship in October 2016 by the Private Enterprise Research Center. During his visit to Texas A&M University, he was interviewed ...
The Increase Convex Order and the Tradeoff of Size for Risk
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-02-01)
One random variable is larger than another in the increasing convex order if that random variable is preferred or indifferent to the other by all decision makers with increasing and convex utility functions. Decision makers ...
Market Concentration, Price Dispersion and Inefficient Cross-hauling in the Laboratory
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-04-01)
This paper presents experimental evidence suggesting that persistent price dispersion that violates the law of one price may be a disequilibrium phenomena. Increasing market concentration increases the pecuniary incentive ...