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Pandemic Misery Index: States and Texas MSAs
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-09-25)
How does Texas’ response to the coronavirus pandemic compare to that of other states? In this issue of PERCspectives on Policy, Dennis W. Jansen, Carlos I. Navarro, and Andrew J. Rettenmaier discuss which states, and ...
Almost Stochastic Dominance: Magnitude Constraints on Risk Aversion
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-06-01)
Almost stochastic dominance (ASD) extends conventional first and second degree stochastic dominance by placing restrictions on the variability in the first and second derivatives of utility. Such restrictions increase the ...
Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, May 2022
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-05-31)
The Business-Cycle increased 1.2% from February 2022 to March 2022. The local unemployment rate decreased to 3.4% in March 2022 from 3.6% in February 2022. Local nonfarm employment in March increased by 0.3% from February ...
Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, May 2020
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-05-21)
Data on initial unemployment claims indicate almost 2 million workers in Texas have filed claims over the last 8 weeks. Nationally, 36.5 million new unemployment claims have been filed over the same time period. The price ...
Illegal Immigration: The Trump Effect
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-06-03)
Recent years have witnessed the emergence of increasingly provocative anti-immigrant politicians in both Europe and the United States. The authors examine whether the 2016 election of Donald Trump, who made illegal immigration ...
A Presentation on the Coronavirus and The Economy, Updated 6/25
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-06-25)
This presentation focuses on the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on College Station-Bryan and the state of Texas. The attached presentation includes information on: Updated national unemployment insurance claims for ...
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 ...
Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, August 2020
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-08-20)
After rising somewhat in the second half of July, initial unemployment claims in the U.S. have resumed a steady decline, dropping below one million for the week ending on August 8, the lowest level recorded since the week ...
Effects of Mandatory Energy Efficiency Disclosure in Housing Markets
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-02-25)
Policymakers are increasingly using mandated information disclosures as a way to increase market efficiency by providing information on quality to buyers. In the housing market in Austin, Texas, home sellers are required ...
The Pandemic Misery Index
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-03-18)
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought with it both human and economic loss. The Pandemic Misery Index, or PMI, is a simple metric that measures the effectiveness of pandemic-related public policies by combining the unemployment ...