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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 ...
Interview with Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-12-02)
On September 23, 2021, Dr. Robert Lawson and Dr. Benjamin Powell visited the Private Enterprise Research Center and that evening, they gave a presentation titled, “Socialism versus Freedom� based on their book titled, ...
Federal Liabilities 2015 Update
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-07-01)
The Vicious Circle of Blackouts and Revenue Collection in Developing Economies: Evidence from Ghana
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-11-20)
Access to reliable electricity is one of the largest barriers to economic growth in developing economies. Utilities suffer from the twin challenges of quasi-fiscal deficits and the need to implement rolling blackouts during ...
Great (Inflation) Expectations
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-04-28)
As states have begun to ease pandemic-related restrictions, we enter a new economic period that has the potential for rapid economic growth, but also a period of rising inflation. In this edition of PERCspectives on Policy, ...
A Primer on Measures of Government Financing Shortfalls and Liabilities
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-08-01)
This note presents measures of financing shortfalls and liabilities, both for an individual government program such as Social Security and for government financing as a whole. At the level of individual programs, the widely ...
Market Risk and Retirement Plans
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-01-13)
At retirement, the goal of most workers is to be able to pay their anticipated living expenses using their employer-sponsored retirement plan, savings, and Social Security. Today, most workers’ employer-sponsored retirement ...
The Vicious Circle of Blackouts and Revenue Collection in Developing Economies: Evidence from Ghana
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-02-05)
As reliable electricity is needed to form and sustain successful businesses, power is critically important for economic growth, especially for developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. In urban areas where most residences ...
Comparative Risk Apportionment
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-01-04)
A decision maker who would rather apportion an independent risk in a state with a good lottery than in a state with a bad lottery is said to have a preference for risk apportionment (Eeckhoudt & Schlesinger, 2006). In this ...
Business Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic, Bryan-College Station Follow-up Survey Results
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-12-11)
This follow-up survey is the second of two surveys that includes responses from businesses in the Bryan-College Station area on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on operations and supply chain, workforce, and finance. ...