Browsing PERC Publications by Issue Date
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-05-01)
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-05-01)
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-05-01)
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-06-01)Many jurisdictions around the world have deregulated utilities and opened retail markets to competition. However, inertial decisionmaking can diminish consumer benefits of retail competition. Using household-level data ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-07-01)
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-07-01)The sluggish growth in employment following the Great Recession has spurred research into investigating its cause. Economists are split as to whether it reflects the advent of “jobless recoveries� or just reflects ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-07-09)The authors study the time varying effects of monetary policy on the stock returns in order to capture changes in the effectiveness of monetary policy over time. They find that a one percentage point surprise federal funds ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-09-01)America prides itself as a place where people who work hard and don't quit can move up. However, there are concerns growing economic inequality has stymied economic mobility. This issue of PERCspectives on Policy identifies ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-09-01)Generally, stock prices react negatively to unanticipated and restrictive monetary policies. In PERC Working Paper 1505, Jordan Professor of Economics, Dennis W. Jansen, and Anastasia S. Zervou test to what extent surprises ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-09-01)Agents who are averse to increases in downside risk are defined as being averse to changes that shift a certain amount of risk to a lower income level. For downside risk averse decision makers, there are several tradeoffs ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 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 ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-01-01)
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-01-01)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 ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-01-01)Every year thousands of Americans move across county lines. In general, non-migrants experience higher average incomes than their migrant counterparts. This issue of PERCspectives on Policy explores how migrants and ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 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 ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-02-01)This paper examines the relationship between changes in the minimum wage and firms’ export behavior in China using detailed firm-level data of medium and large manufacturing enterprises between 1998 and 2007. We find ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-02-01)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 ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-03-01)Medicare celebrated its golden anniversary this past year. The program now provides insurance coverage for over 50 million Americans, and accounts for 20 percent of the nation's health care spending. Its shares of the ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-03-01)The aim of this document is to present some basic information and general trends in the data used to create the PERC county-to-county migration overview map. As such, the analysis is limited only to variables used on the ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-04-01)Wealth inequality has grown significantly over the last three decades and there are growing concerns about the diminishing wealth share of the middle class. Standard wealth definitions require that individuals possess a ...