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Social Interactions and Smoking Initiation
This paper explores the role of social interactions on a youth’s decision to begin smoking. Specifically, we estimate the effect of cigarette taxes during early childhood on beginning smoking later in adolescence in a discrete-time hazard model.
Corbin Miller
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Austin Miller
Last updated on Mar 29, 2022
Health
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Tax
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Public Finance
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The Cross-Price Elasticity of Charitable and Political Contributions
Jon Bakija
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Corbin Miller
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Kyle Rozema
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Eleanor Wilking
The Effect of Education Spending on Student Achievement
In this paper, I estimate the effect of education spending on district-level student outcomes in 24 states by leveraging changes in revenue driven by property value variation. I find that a 10 percent increase in spending improves graduation rates by 3 to 5 percentage points and student test scores by 0.07 to 0.09 standard deviations. This suggests that market variation in property values affects student outcomes through existing school finance formulas.
Corbin Miller
Last updated on Mar 29, 2022
Education
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Tax
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Public Finance
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Rent-Seeking through Collective Bargaining: Teachers Unions and Education Production
This study, published in the Economics of Education Review, explores how teachers unions affect education production by comparing outcomes between districts allocating new tax revenue amidst collective bargaining negotiations and districts allocating tax revenue well before.
Jason Cook
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Stéphane Lavertu
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Corbin Miller
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