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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 ...
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 ...
Dropouts Need Not Apply? The Minimum Wage and Skill Upgrading
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-09-21)
In the United States, politicians and the public alike have again sounded the call to raise the federal minimum wage, citing unlivable earnings and high consumer prices due to rising inflation, but would an increase actually ...
Does Race Matter for Police Use of Force? Evidence from 911 Calls
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-04-30)
What role does race have in cases of police use of force? This issue of PERCspectives on Research summarizes the paper by Rex B. Grey Professor Mark Hoekstra and Graduate Student Fellow CarlyWill Sloan, which examines how ...
Has the Information Channel of Monetary Policy Disappeared? Revisiting the Empirical Evidence
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-04-30)
Does the Federal Reserve have an “information advantage� in forecasting macroeconomic variables beyond what is known to private sector forecasters? And are market participants reacting only to monetary policy shocks ...
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 ...
Household Debt and the Effect of Fiscal Policy
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2022-02-08)
Since the Great Recession, policymakers have increasingly relied on fiscal policy to stabilize and stimulate the economy. This Winter 2022 issue of PERCspectives on Research summarizes a paper by PERC’s Shirley A. Lynch ...
Coronavirus Economics: The Impact of Shutting Down Meatpacking Plants
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-10-01)
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Covid-19 infections at meatpacking plants led to shutdowns across the United States. Beef became scarcer and with higher consumer prices, while ranchers received lower prices for their beef. ...
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, ...