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Optimal Regional Insurance Provision: Do Federal Transfers Complement Local Debt?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 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 ...
The Effect of Public Health Insurance on Criminal Recidivism
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-07-23)
The prevalence of mental health and substance abuse disorders is high among incarcerated individuals. Many ex-offenders reenter the community without receiving any specialized treatment and return to prison with existing ...
Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, August 2019
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-08-19)
The Business-Cycle Index rose almost 1% between May and June of 2019. The local economy is in good shape and has had positive growth for the last four months. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased to 2.7%, a ...
Optimal Interregional Redistribution and Local Borrowing Rules under Migration and Asymmetric Information
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 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 ...
Strict Voter Identification Laws, Turnout, and Election Outcomes
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 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 ...
Remittances, Output, and Exchange Rate Regimes: Theory with an Application to Latin America
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-08-20)
Remittances from immigrants back to relatives and friends in their home country represent a large and important flow of funds both absolutely and relative to measures of national income. Macroeconomic aggregates are impacted ...
Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, April 2019
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-04-22)
The Business Cycle Index measured one point lower than the revised January 2019 value, a -4.7% annualized rate of decline. Nonfarm employment for January was revised downward by 0.1% from the value released last month, and ...
Texas Taxes
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-05-09)
Local property tax collections are increasing faster than other Texas taxes. The legislature is currently considering proposals the would limit the growth in property tax revenues. How much does a Texas resident pay in ...
Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, January 2019
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-01-21)
Employment in November 2018 increased at an annualized rate of 4.4% from its revised October figure and is up 2.5% from the level in November 2017. Employment counts from June to November 2018 were revised upward with the ...
Tax Prices and Charitable Giving: Projected Changes in Donations Under the 2017 TCJA
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 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 ...