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The Impact of Teacher-Student Gender Matches: Random Assignment Evidence from South Korea
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-01-01)
Subject-specific gender disparities appear and widen as students advance through school. In PERC Working Paper 1509, PERC Professor Jonathan Meer and Jaegeum Lim examine test scores for South Korean middle school students ...
Are We Taming Health Care Spending
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-01-01)
Vehicle Miles (Not) Traveled: Fuel Economy Requirements, Vehicle Characteristics, and Household Driving
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-08-01)
Simply put, the less Americans drive, the less gas they use. More driving, more gas. The negative effects of gasoline consumption are well-documented, ranging from local effects of automobile pollution on individuals' ...
Testing Risk Dominance and Payoff Dominance in Repeated Global Stag Hunt Games
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 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 ...
What Happened to Rosie?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-01-01)
The ACA and the States
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-01-01)
A Model to Evaluate Vehicle Emission Incentive Policies in Japan
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-06-01)
Using three years of data from the 47 prefectures of Japan, the authors estimate behavior of households who simultaneously make discrete decisions about vehicle ownership and continuous decisions about driving distance. ...
The Time Varying Effect of Monetary Policy Surprise on Stock Returns: Bursting Bubble Beating Forward Guidance
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-09-01)
Generally, stock prices react negatively to unanticipated and restrictive monetary policies. In PERC Working Paper 1505, Jordan Professor of Economics, Dennis W. Jansen, and Anastasia S. Zervou test to what extent surprises ...
Cash for Corollas: When Stimulus Reduces Spending
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-04-01)
The 2009 Cash for Clunkers program aimed to stimulate consumer spending in the new automobile industry, which was experiencing disproportionate reductions in demand and employment during the Great Recession. Exploiting ...
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 ...