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The Higher Costs of Doing Business in China: Minimum Wages and Firms' Export Behavior
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-02-01)
This paper examines the relationship between changes in the minimum wage and firms’ export behavior in China using detailed firm-level data of medium and large manufacturing enterprises between 1998 and 2007. We find ...
Peer Quality and the Academic Benefits to Attending Better Schools
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-09-18)
Despite strong demand for attending high schools with better peers, there is mixed evidence on whether doing so improves academic outcomes. The authors estimate the cognitive returns to high school quality using administrative ...
Is Social Security Wealth?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-04-01)
Wealth inequality has grown significantly over the last three decades and there are growing concerns about the diminishing wealth share of the middle class. Standard wealth definitions require that individuals possess a ...
Does Fundraising Create New Giving?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-02-01)
Despite an extensive literature on the impacts of a variety of charitable fundraising tech-niques, little is known about whether these activities increase overall giving or merely cause donors to substitute away from other ...
The Long-Run Effects of Disruptive Peers
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-08-09)
There's a great deal of research on how classmates can affect test scores and discipline in school, but what about later in life? In Working Paper 1605, the authors look at the long-term impact of childhood peers, particularly ...
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 ...
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' ...
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 ...