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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, ...
Vehicle Miles (Not) Traveled: Fuel Economy Requirements, Vehicle Characteristics, and Household Driving
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-01-01)
Simply put, the less Americans drive, the less gas they use. More driving, more gas. The negative effects of gasoline consumption are well-documented, ranging from local effects of automobile pollution on individuals' ...
Does Funding Create New Giving?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-05-01)
Despite an extensive literature on the impacts of a variety of charitable fundraising tech-niques, little is known about whether these activities increase overall giving or merely cause donors to substitute away from other ...
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 ...
How Do Peers Influence BMI?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-10-01)
Childhood obesity is a growing public health concern among many industrialized countries. Authors Meer and Lim present a clear view on the effect of social networks on BMI for adolescents from randomly-assigned seventh ...
Power to Choose? An Analysis of Consumer Intertia in the Residential Electricity Market
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-01-01)
The Impact of Teacher-Student Gender Matches: Random Assignment Evidence from South Korea
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-01-01)
Subject-specific gender disparities appear and widen as students advance through school. In PERC Working Paper 1509, PERC Professor Jonathan Meer and Jaegeum Lim examine test scores for South Korean middle school students ...
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 ...
Generosity Across the Income and Wealth Distributions
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2020-10-01)
Discussing how the rich spend their income is a topic of popular interest among the public and policymakers, yet little evidence exists that the wealthy are less likely to donate than other income groups, and the results ...