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Are Charters the Best Alternative? A Cost Frontier Analysis
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-09-01)
Texas has been part of the charter school movement since 1995, when the 74th Texas Legislature authorized the State Board of Education to establish open enrollment (OE) charter schools in the state. According to the Texas ...
Risk and Risk Aversion Effects in Contests with Contingent Payments
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-01-18)
Firms seeking new products, investors backing competitors, and government agencies in search of design solutions are all examples of different models of contest design found in the marketplace. In PERC’s working paper ...
How Much Will We Spend on Health Care?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-10-10)
This atypical election cycle has diverted attention from the growing evidence that premiums for health insurance sold on the exchanges are rising while options have declined. Health expenditures are also again growing ...
Taxing Wealth
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-01-29)
During this presidential primary season, several candidates have proposed a tax on the wealthy to fund platform promises. There is certainly appeal for a wealth tax, as these proposed taxes are seen as a tax on someone ...
Persistent Effects of Teacher-Student Gender Matches
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-01-18)
The absence of same gender role models in STEM fields has been shown to discourage female student participation in STEM fields of study. In PERC Working Paper 1706, Persistent Effects of Teacher-Student Gender Matches, ...
Monetary Policy Uncertainty: A Tale of Two Tails
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-11-12)
During the last few decades, central banks across the globe came to recognize the potentially valuable role that transparency can play in stabilizing the economy. For example, the Federal Reserve in the US started releasing ...
Does Maternity Leave Duration Affect Labor Force Participation and Productivity?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-12-03)
Given the extensively documented evidence that increases in female labor force participation rate are beneficial for the economy in the long run, a natural question that arises in this context is whether policy changes can ...
Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, June 2020
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-06-22)
Initial unemployment claims over the last 14 weeks topped 46 million nationally. The number of claims per week have declined since the week ending March 28. Over the same time period, 2.5 million workers in Texas filed ...
Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, June 2021
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-06-21)
The Business-Cycle Index increased by 0.3% from March 2021 to April 2021. The revised local unemployment rate decreased from 5.4% to 5.3% in April. Local nonfarm employment decreased slightly by 0.5% in April and was 5.2% ...
Diversity In Economics Seminars: Who Gives Invited Talks?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2021-04-12)
In economics, as in many other academic disciplines, it is common for departments to invite external speakers to give research talks in academic seminars. These invited seminars are a primary way that academic economists ...