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Should Conditional Cash Transfers Extend to Secondary Education? Examining the Impact of Brazil's Bolsa Família on High School Transition Rates
(Vanderbilt University, 2020-05)
This paper takes a closer look at Bolsa Família, an anti-poverty program, and its impact on youth education over its fifteen years of existence in Brazil. More specifically, it will explore the distinctive effects the ...
The Legal Bases of Sticky Wages
(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04-21)
Sticky wages are a well-known economic phenomenon, in which wages don’t respond quickly to changes in economic conditions. This is important in derivations of macroeconomic theory from microeconomic phenomena, in setting ...
Design and Predicted Effects of a Carbon Tax with Border Carbon Adjustment in the United States
(Vanderbilt University, 2020-04)
With Climate Change at the center of many global political and policy debates, a Pigouvian tax on carbon dioxide emissions remains a favorite solution among economists and other policy experts. However, asymmetric ...
Understanding Effects of Pharmaceutical Price Control on Firms’ R&D Expenditure and Impacts on Social Welfare
(Vanderbilt University, 2022-05-11)
Many studies have examined price regulations in the pharmaceutical industry in developed countries and found a negative relation between price control and pharmaceutical research and development (R&D). Nevertheless, the ...
Transition Economy Readjustment: A Trade-Shock Perspective
(Vanderbilt University, 2022)
To what extent is Hungary’s recession between 1991 and 1996 driven by the costs of
institutional adjustment following the collapse of the planned economy? Using a dynamic general
equilibrium model with trade policy, price ...
From Preference to Policy: Wealth, Institutions of Government, and the Search for Democracy
(UCL Journal of Economics, 2022-08-25)
What is the nature of substantive representation within American institutions of government, and to what extent do constituents’ preferences turn into adopted policy? To answer these questions, I analyze data on federal ...