Can Pollution Tax Rebates Protect Low-Income Families? The Effects of Relative Wage Rates [PDF]
Pollution taxes are believed to burden low-income households that spend a greater than average share of income on pollution-intensive goods. Some propose to offset that effect by returning revenue to low-income workers via reduced labor tax.
Don Fullerton, Holly Monti
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Income sharing for common pool resources with uncertain productivity
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract We address the interconnected issues of externalities in the use of a natural common‐pool resource system and adverse effects of environmental uncertainty on risk‐averse resource users. We set up a simple analytical model and derive conditions such that insurance by means of an income sharing mechanism mitigates externalities and hence ...
Claudia Kelsall +2 more
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The Wage and Non-wage Costs of Displacement: Evidence from Russia
, 2011 H. Lehmann +3 more
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A Kaldor Matching Model of Real Wage Declines [PDF]
A model linking macroeconomic equilibrium and income distribution in balanced growth equilibria is developed as a variant to the Kaldor model of factor shares.
Michael Sattinger
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Disaster-induced migration and local labor markets: Heterogeneous effects by skill level and industry structure. [PDF]
PLoS OneHu Y, Mao Y, Luo Q, Cutler H.
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Information framing and the impact of nutrition label serving size change
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract The framing of information can significantly influence how consumers interpret and respond to it. This paper investigates how the change in serving sizes in Nutrition Facts Panel (NFP) affects consumer choices for carbonated soft drinks (CSD). We first estimate a reduced form difference‐in‐differences (DiD) model to document causal effects on ...
Yuxiang Zhang, Yizao Liu, Linlin Fan
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Green Tax Reform, marginal revenue of wage income taxes, and the wage curve: A brief note [PDF]
Schneider (1997) showed that the success of a green tax reform depends crucially on a smallslope of the wage curve of an efficiency wage model in which production occurs using a secondfactor E, energy or emissions.
Ziesemer,Thomas
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Health effects of an increased federal minimum wage among US low-wage-earning adults: a difference-in-differences analysis in a population-based cohort. [PDF]
BMJ Public HealthSamuel LJ +6 more
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Protecting endangered aquatic species while sustaining farming communities can require water buyback programs that are both cost‐effective and responsive to the variability and unpredictability of drought conditions. Working in close partnership with The Nature Conservancy and the Georgia Water Planning and Policy Center, we co‐design parallel
Lusi Xie +5 more
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The household burden of sleeping sickness: out-of-pocket costs for diagnosis and treatment. [PDF]
BMJ Glob HealthSnijders R +7 more
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