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Publikováno v:
Econ Journal Watch. 11(3):277-296
Taxation has several significant excess burdens, including enforcement costs, compliance costs, and deadweight losses. Most estimates find that raising a dollar of tax revenue costs much more than a dollar. Unfortunately, commonly used public finance
Publikováno v:
Biometrics & Biostatistics International Journal. 3
These meta-analysis studies on arsenic exposure and disease risk assume linear exposure-response models. The linearity assumption for the logarithm of relative risks and levels of exposure to arsenic is overly simplified and is not adequate to captur
Autor:
John B. Horowitz, Tim Dowd
Publikováno v:
Public Finance Review. 39:619-652
The authors use a unique data set of federal tax returns to analyze usage and participation patterns of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) over the period 1989–2006. The authors find that most EITC recipients claimed the EITC for short periods, 61
Autor:
Lee C. Spector, John B. Horowitz
Publikováno v:
Economics of Education Review. 24:189-195
This article examines the impact of private high schools vs. public high schools on the academic performance of 15,270 undergraduate students registered at Ball State University. Students who went to religious high schools seem to outperform their pr
Autor:
John B. Horowitz, H. Brian Moehring
Publikováno v:
Health Economics. 13:575-583
Antibiotic resistance tends to increase when a patent on an antibiotic expires. Since other companies can now sell the antibiotic, more of the antibiotic is produced and prices fall. Because the benefits of reducing current production go to other fir
Publikováno v:
Urban Studies. 40:797-807
This paper expands on the school finance literature by using a political fragmentation index to calculate how political power affects educational spending in Virginia, USA. The methodology allows the comparison of different political voices relative
Autor:
John B. Horowitz
Publikováno v:
Economic Inquiry. 40:334-347
The authors use a unique data set of federal tax returns to analyze usage and participation patterns of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) over the period 1989–2006. The authors find that most EITC recipients claimed the EITC for short periods, 61
Autor:
John B. Horowitz
Publikováno v:
Eastern Economic Journal. 28:351-362
The non-poor need to have information on the existence and the cause of the plight of the poor for redistribution to be a public good. Since gaining this information takes time, the full price of helping the poor includes both the money cost and the
Publikováno v:
Public Finance Review. 26:214-230
This study includes the marginal cost of redistribution (MCR) in analyzing the adjusted tax price faced by the median voter. The adjusted tax price is then used to analyze the degree to which efficiency costs change the level of income redistribution
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SSRN Electronic Journal.
Conservation payments lead to improvement in environmental quality only if farmers and ranchers who receive them adopt conservation practices that would not have been adopted without the payment. When a voluntary payment causes a change in practice(s