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A Neglected Aspect of Tax Reform: Improving the Efficiency of Tax Expenditures on Employer-Provided Health Insurance
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-11-01)
The House recently passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and the Senate now begins debate on its version of tax reform. Debate has centered on the tax reform's potential negative revenue effects and its disparate treatment of ...
Persistent Effects of Teacher-Student Gender Matches
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-08-23)
The authors exploit data from middle schools in Seoul, South Korea, where students and teachers are randomly assigned to classrooms, and find that female students taught by a female versus a male teacher score higher on ...
Navigating the Earned Income Tax Credit
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-09-01)
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the federal government's largest means-tested cash assistance program. The popular anti-poverty program's maximum credits and income eligibility ranges have been legislatively increased ...
Federal Liabilities: 2017 Update
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-06-01)
The official federal liabilities of the United States federal government totaled $22.8 trillion as of September 30, 2016. They include the debt held by the public of $14.2 trillion, federal employees; accrued retirement ...
Peer Quality and Benefits to Attending Better Schools
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-05-01)
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 ...
The Border Adjustment Tax and Corporate Tax Reform
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-05-01)
Both House Republicans' 2016 tax plan and, more recently, President Trump's tax plan envision a rate cut for the corporate income tax (CIT): from the current 35% to 20% (the House plan) or 15% (the president's plan). To ...
The Impact of College Diversity on Behavior Toward Minorities
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-02-03)
There is little question as to the lack of racial diversity at selective U.S. universities. However, there is considerable debate regarding the benets of various policy options to increase diversity. Proponents of ...
Texas Movers
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-09-01)
Population grows if migration into a state exceeds the migration out, combined with the natural increase of births over deaths. From 2010 - 2016, Texas had the largest population increase of any state, amassing almost 28 ...
Interview with Dr. Joshua Rauh
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-05-19)
Dr. Liu, Dr. Rettenmaier and Dr. Saving interview Kirby Distinguished Visiting Professor Dr. Joshua Rauh during his visit to Texas A&M University.
How Do Peers Influence BMI? Evidence from Randomly Assigned Classrooms in South Korea
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-08-01)
Obesity among children is an important public health concern, and social networks may play a role in students' habits that increase the likelihood of being overweight. We examine data from South Korean middle schools, where ...