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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fiscal Decentralization, Political Heterogeneity and Welfare
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-02-15)
Theoretical and empirical literature on �scal decentralization has been thriving, while understanding the welfare implications of �scal decentralization under political diversity necessitates further investigation. ...
Why Do Asian Students Study Harder? Implications of a Model of Academic Competition
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-08-28)
Popularized by the OECD’s PISA rankings of a few dozen countries/regions according to the test results of their 15 year olds, Asian students’ impressive academic achievements are now well known. Each of the top five ...