David S. Jacks , Krishna Pendakur , Hitoshi Shigeoka , Anthony Wray
{"title":"Later-life mortality and the repeal of federal prohibition","authors":"David S. Jacks , Krishna Pendakur , Hitoshi Shigeoka , Anthony Wray","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105192","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105192","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Despite a recent and dramatic re-evaluation of the health consequences of alcohol consumption, very little is known about the effects of in utero exposure to alcohol on long-run outcomes such as later-life mortality. Here, we investigate how state by year variation in alcohol control arising from the repeal of federal prohibition affects mortality for cohorts born in the 1930s. We find that individuals born in wet states experienced higher later-life mortality than individuals born in dry states, translating into a 3.3% increase in mortality rates between 1990 and 2004 for affected cohorts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Economics","volume":"238 ","pages":"Article 105192"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272724001282/pdfft?md5=ab71c3130be8637a1115d3c03ac1d88c&pid=1-s2.0-S0047272724001282-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141886002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Norm-based feedback on household waste: Large-scale field experiments in two Swedish municipalities","authors":"Claes Ek , Magnus Söderberg","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105191","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105191","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We conduct two large-scale randomized controlled trials to produce the first evidence that Home Energy Report-type norm feedback letters can be used to reduce household waste. We explore several feedback variants, including a novel short-run dynamic norm that emphasizes ongoing changes in waste behavior. Waste reductions are on the order of 7%–12% for all treatments, substantially larger than usually found in the energy or water domains. Effects are mostly driven by increased recycling of packaging and remain largely intact a year after the intervention ended. Feedback is highly cost-effective compared to alternative non-price waste policies. However, net social benefits depend on household preferences for receiving feedback, which we elicit in a valuation survey, and whether existing waste fees internalize the marginal social cost of waste.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Economics","volume":"238 ","pages":"Article 105191"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272724001270/pdfft?md5=52496199cc37f1b76051dbf74e3dc668&pid=1-s2.0-S0047272724001270-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141885999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pierre Magontier , Albert Solé-Ollé , Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal
{"title":"The political economy of coastal development","authors":"Pierre Magontier , Albert Solé-Ollé , Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105178","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105178","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Coastal development has advantages, such as job creation, and drawbacks, such as the loss of environmental amenities, for both residents and non-residents. Local governments may prioritize their constituents’ interests, resulting in suboptimal coastal development. We investigate how political alignment among neighboring mayors facilitates intergovernmental cooperation in the development of coastal areas. We leverage causal effects by applying a close-elections Regression Discontinuity Design to the universe of buildings in Spain. Municipalities with party-aligned mayors develop 46% less land than politically isolated ones, and politically homogeneous coastal areas develop less than fragmented ones. The effect is more salient for land closest to shore or previously occupied by forests, in municipalities with a large share of protected land, and for relevant environmental markers, such as air and bathing water pollution. These results underscore the importance of cooperative political endeavors in managing development spillovers, with environmental considerations assuming a central role.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Economics","volume":"238 ","pages":"Article 105178"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272724001142/pdfft?md5=26841cf5f01564a3b5d5cdde40b1d8ad&pid=1-s2.0-S0047272724001142-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141886000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optional (non-)filing and effective taxation","authors":"Tobias Hauck , Luisa Wallossek","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105187","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105187","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Many countries have automatic wage tax withholding systems with tax non-filing options for some taxpayers. We show that this has sizable and potentially unintended implications for effective taxation because taxes are often over-withheld. Low-income taxpayers pay more taxes than they have to because they frequently do not file. Using German administrative tax data, we document that the average non-filer overpays €<!--> <!-->119 in one year, equivalent to a <span><math><mrow><mn>1</mn><mo>.</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow></math></span> percentage point increase in the average tax rate. Non-filing acts as a form of “reverse evasion”: It weakens the effective tax progressivity by increasing tax rates at the bottom of the income distribution.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Economics","volume":"238 ","pages":"Article 105187"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272724001233/pdfft?md5=0badcabf8ae6b3a22f35d13e76dfca41&pid=1-s2.0-S0047272724001233-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141886205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stanislav Avdeev , Nadine Ketel , Hessel Oosterbeek , Bas van der Klaauw
{"title":"Spillovers in fields of study: Siblings, cousins, and neighbors","authors":"Stanislav Avdeev , Nadine Ketel , Hessel Oosterbeek , Bas van der Klaauw","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105193","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105193","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We use admission lotteries for higher education studies in the Netherlands to investigate whether someone’s field of study influences the study choices of their younger peers. We find that younger siblings and cousins are strongly affected. Also younger neighbors are affected but to a smaller extent. These findings indicate that a substantial part of the correlations in study choices between family members can be attributed to spillover effects and are not due to shared environments. Our findings concur with those of recent studies based on admission thresholds, which find sibling spillovers on college or college-major choices. This indicates that the results from previous studies can be extrapolated to students away from admission thresholds, and from siblings to cousins and neighbors.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Economics","volume":"238 ","pages":"Article 105193"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272724001294/pdfft?md5=3d1c0dc735bece1629c5230b358e9f12&pid=1-s2.0-S0047272724001294-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141886001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Organizational capacity and profit shifting","authors":"Katarzyna Bilicka , Daniela Scur","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105179","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105179","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Good organizational capacity drives productivity and <em>potential</em> taxable profits, but may also enable multinationals (MNEs) to more efficiently re-allocate profits across tax jurisdictions, lowering <em>actual</em> taxable profits. We show that MNE subsidiaries with better organizational capacity report significantly lower profits in high-tax countries. This pattern is not present in low-tax countries. Further, responsiveness to corporate tax rate changes in terms of profit reporting is driven by firms with good organizational capacity. We show our results are consistent with profit-shifting behavior and rule out key alternative channels.<span><span><sup>1</sup></span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":48436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Economics","volume":"238 ","pages":"Article 105179"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141954341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christine Mulhern , Shelby McNeill , Fatih Unlu , Brian Phillips , Julie A. Edmunds , Eric Grebing
{"title":"Spillover effects of specialized high schools","authors":"Christine Mulhern , Shelby McNeill , Fatih Unlu , Brian Phillips , Julie A. Edmunds , Eric Grebing","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105170","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105170","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Specialized high schools are an increasingly popular way to prepare young adults for postsecondary experiences and expand school choice. While much literature examines charter school spillover effects and the effects of specialized schools on the students who attend them, little is known about the spillover effects of specialized high schools on traditional public schools (TPS). Using an event study design, we show that one type of specialized high school, North Carolina’s Cooperative Innovative High Schools, initially attracted students who were higher achieving and more likely to be white than TPS students, but these specialized schools became more representative of the district population over time. On average, the opening of specialized schools had a mix of null and positive spillover effects on TPS student achievement. While there is some evidence of negative spillovers from the first schools that opened, the effects become more positive over time.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Economics","volume":"238 ","pages":"Article 105170"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272724001063/pdfft?md5=e4252ee086a160da53acfb9603f39742&pid=1-s2.0-S0047272724001063-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141886148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effects of physician vertical integration on referral patterns, patient welfare, and market dynamics","authors":"Christopher M. Whaley , Xiaoxi Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105175","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105175","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The growth of physician vertical integration raises concerns about distorted referral patterns, higher spending, and market foreclosure. Using 100% Medicare data, we combine reduced-form analysis with a discrete choice model to estimate the effects of physician vertical integration on patients’ provider choices and welfare for two common “downstream” surgical procedures. Physician–hospital integration results in an approximately 10% increase in referrals to higher-priced facilities instead of lower-priced providers. Our counterfactual analysis implies that if all primary care physicians become integrated, total Medicare spending will increase by $315 million.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Economics","volume":"238 ","pages":"Article 105175"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141891561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The McMansion effect: Positional externalities in U.S. suburbs","authors":"Clément S. Bellet","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105174","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105174","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines how the construction of very large homes — or “McMansions” — in U.S. suburbs affects homeowners’ satisfaction and housing behavior. Combining three decades of survey data with geolocated information on three million suburban houses, I find that homeowners exposed to newly constructed, large houses report lower satisfaction with their own homes, while their neighborhood satisfaction remains unaffected. This effect is contingent on the visual salience of McMansions, as indicated by their proximity to roads. Homeowners exposed to new-built McMansions are more likely to expand their own homes and take on more debt.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Economics","volume":"238 ","pages":"Article 105174"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272724001105/pdfft?md5=67cb109caeb8e7815f7d49062f78885a&pid=1-s2.0-S0047272724001105-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141886003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luca Corazzini , Christopher S. Cotton , Enrico Longo , Tommaso Reggiani
{"title":"Coordinated selection of collective action: Wealthy-interest bias and inequality","authors":"Luca Corazzini , Christopher S. Cotton , Enrico Longo , Tommaso Reggiani","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105172","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105172","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We extend a collective action problem to study policy and project selection by heterogeneous groups who prefer to work together on a joint initiative but may disagree on which initiative is best. Our framework, adapted from a model of multiple threshold public goods, presents groups with several mutually exclusive projects, any of which require sufficient support from the group to succeed. Individuals strictly prefer to contribute where and how much they believe others expect of them to ensure joint project success. Groups tend to coordinate on the public good preferred by the wealthiest member, demonstrating a wealthy-interest bias even without corruption, politics, and information asymmetries. At the same time, groups divide costs in highly progressive ways, with the wealthy voluntarily funding a disproportionate share, helping offset the inherent inequality from endowment and selection differences. We discuss applications for policy selection, charitable giving, and taxes.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48436,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Economics","volume":"238 ","pages":"Article 105172"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272724001087/pdfft?md5=a0042b52539c43b6e15397445d6312bf&pid=1-s2.0-S0047272724001087-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141732083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}