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Risk and Risk Aversion Effects in Contests with Contingent Payments
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-01-18)
Firms seeking new products, investors backing competitors, and government agencies in search of design solutions are all examples of different models of contest design found in the marketplace. In PERC’s working paper ...
The Effect of Open-Air Waste Burning on Infant Health: Evidence from Government Failure in Lebanon
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-05-14)
An estimated 40 percent of the world's garbage is burned in open-air fires, which are responsible for as much as half of the global emissions of some pollutants. However, there is little evidence on the health consequences ...
Power to Choose? An Analysis of Consumer Intertia in the Residential Electricity Market
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-01-01)
Social Security Wealth and Federal Liabilities
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-02-15)
In the U.S., wealth inequality has risen in recent years. However, past estimates of wealth inequality tend to ignore Social Security benefits – even though these accrued benefits are almost 40% of the size of conventional ...
Tax Prices and Charitable Giving: Projected Changes in Donations Under the 2017 TCJA
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-02-25)
The Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 made significant changes to the rate structure of the Internal Revenue Code of the United States, including the near-doubling of the standard deduction. Many taxpayers who normally itemize ...
Schools, Neighborhoods, and the Long-Run Effect of Crime-Prone Peers
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-10-10)
Although it is well known that childhood peers affect future outcomes, little is known about the effects of different neighborhood factors. In working paper 1909, PERC’s Rex Grey Professor Mark Hoekstra and coauthor ...
Portfolio Choice in the Model of Expected Utility With a Safety-First Component
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-05-10)
Whereas the majority of economists interpret risk as dispersion or variation in an outcome variable, many everyday decision makers tend to associate risk with the outcome failing to meet a certain “safety� level. Here, ...
Testing Risk Dominance and Payoff Dominance in Repeated Global Stag Hunt Games
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-01-01)
This article was published as part of the PERCspectives on Research Newsletter, Winter 2015 Edition.
Public Pension Reforms and Fiscal Foresight: Narrative Evidence and Aggregate Implications
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-02-15)
Many OECD countries have significantly increased spending on public pensions over the last half-century. As more retirees begin to draw benefits, policymakers have placed more focus on retrenchment reforms in order to keep ...
The Effect of Own-Gender Juries on Conviction Rates
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-07-11)
The right to an impartial jury is the cornerstone of the U.S. justice system and is enshrined in the Bill of Rights, but are these juries truly impartial, or do they favor defendants who are similar to themselves? In PERC ...