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Interview with Jonathan Meer
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-10-01)
As part of PERC's interview series, Jonathan Meer discusses his recent teaching awards, perspective on teaching undergraduates, wealth inequality, and future research in this issue of PERCspectives on Research.
Household Debt and the Effects of Fiscal Policy
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-11-02)
This paper examines how the effects of government spending shocks depend on the balance-sheet position of households. Employing U.S. household survey data, the authors find that in response to a positive government spending ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Pandemic and Texas State Tax Revenue
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-01-22)
Government budgets have undergone drastic changes due to the coronavirus pandemic. In this issue, authors Dennis W. Jansen and Andrew J. Rettenmaier share the state of Texas’ tax collections compared to previous years. ...
Texas Pension Woes
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-04-12)
The unfunded liabilities from Texas’ many state and local defined benefit pension plans, or the amount a pension fund’s assets cannot cover its liabilities, have snowballed over time and have recently reached unprecedented ...
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, ...
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, ...