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Are Charters the Best Alternative?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-01-01)
Texas has been part of the charter school movement since 1995, when the 74th Texas Legislature authorized the State Board of Education to establish open enrollment (OE) charter schools in the state. According to the Texas ...
Moving Up
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-09-01)
America prides itself as a place where people who work hard and don't quit can move up. However, there are concerns growing economic inequality has stymied economic mobility. This issue of PERCspectives on Policy identifies ...
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 ...
The Federal Reserve: Back to the Past
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-10-01)
The Federal Reserve's payment of interest on bank reserves balances has transformed the balances to investments rather than just insurance against a run on the banking system. The paying of interest on reserves allowed the ...
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 ...