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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 ...
Impact of China's Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Expenditures and Health Outcomes
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-12-01)
At the end of 1998, China launched a government-run mandatory insurance program, the Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance (UEBMI), to replace the previous medical insurance system. Using the UEBMI reform in China as a ...
Social Security Wealth and Federal Liabilities
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-10-27)
This study identifies Social Security wealth as accrued benefits based on past participation in the program. This definition is similar to accrued pension wealth associated with defined benefit plans. Accrued Social Security ...
Tax Prices and Charitable Giving: Projected Changes in Donations Under the 2017 TCJA
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-11-22)
We estimate the tax price elasticity of charitable giving using newly-available data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics spanning 2001-2017. We find that households that always itemize are less sensitive to changes in ...
Does Strategic Ability Affect Efficiency? Evidence from Electricity Markets
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-04-01)
Even within the same market, firms vary across a number of dimension--structure, production capacity, market experience, and general core competency. If you go as far as to observe individual managers, you will find resumes ...
Fiscal Decentralization, Political Heterogeneity and Welfare
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-02-15)
Theoretical and empirical literature on �scal decentralization has been thriving, while understanding the welfare implications of �scal decentralization under political diversity necessitates further investigation. ...
Why Do Asian Students Study Harder? Implications of a Model of Academic Competition
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2019-08-28)
Popularized by the OECD’s PISA rankings of a few dozen countries/regions according to the test results of their 15 year olds, Asian students’ impressive academic achievements are now well known. Each of the top five ...
The Impact of Teacher-Student Gender Matches: Random Assignment Evidence from South Korea
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-11-23)
Gender disparities in academic performance may be driven in part by the interaction of teacher and student gender, but systematic sorting of students into classrooms makes it difficult to identify causal effects. The authors ...