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Neighborhoods, perceived Inequality, and preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from Barcelona

IF 4.8 1区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Journal of Public Economics

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105288

Gerard Domènech-Arumí

I study the effects of neighborhood-level inequality on perceived national-level inequality and preferences for redistribution. I construct a novel measure of local inequality using geolocated housing data and elicit perceptions and preferences from an original survey conducted in Barcelona. Local inequality is positively associated with perceived inequality but not with preferences for redistribution. I address endogenous sorting by exploiting quasi-random variation in exposure to new apartment buildings; this increases perceived inequality by 7% and has a positive but not statistically significant effect on demand for redistribution. Effects come from higher perceived income at the top. Local inequality shapes national-level inequality perceptions, but if it influences demand for redistribution, the effect is small. This work suggests that individuals extrapolate from their local environments when forming beliefs and highlights the importance of data granularity when studying neighborhood effects.

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The environmental cost of power outages: Evidence from Delhi

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Journal of Public Economics

Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105289

Yatang Lin , Dana Kassem

This paper examines an overlooked consequence of an unstable electricity supply: air pollution. Using a unique dataset with high-frequency records of outage events and pollution, we find that outages lead to a 0.4% and 1.3% increase in hourly NO

_{2}

and NO concentrations and a 0.4% increase in PM10 levels. This is likely attributable to the widespread use of highly polluting backup diesel generators. The environmental cost of outages exceeds the private cost for users when backup generators are adopted. Welfare analysis using bunching estimation highlights the importance of incorporating environmental benefits in the evaluation of policies aimed at mitigating outages.

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When weather wounds workers: The impact of temperature on workplace accidents

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Journal of Public Economics

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105258

Katharina Drescher , Benedikt Janzen

We study the effects of temperature on occupational health using administrative data on Swiss occupational accidents from 1996 to 2019. Our results imply that on hot days (

T_{m a x} \geq

30 °C) the number of occupational accidents increases by 7.4% and on ice days (

T_{m a x} <

0 °C) by 6.3%, relative to mild days. We find that extreme temperatures cause an average of 2600 workplace accidents each year, costing CHF 91 million annually. We provide suggestive evidence for insufficient sleep on hot days as a mechanism. While extreme temperatures worsen occupational health, we observe limited labor supply adaption for most workers.

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Where and why do politicians send pork? Evidence from central government transfers to French municipalities

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Journal of Public Economics

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105276

Brice Fabre , Marc Sangnier

This paper uses French data to simultaneously estimate the impact of two types of connections on government subsidies allocated to municipalities. Investigating different types of connection in a same setting helps to distinguish between the different motivations that could drive pork-barreling. We differentiate between municipalities where ministers held office before their appointment to the government and those where they lived as children. Exploiting ministers’ entries into and exits from the government, we show that municipalities where a minister was mayor receive 30% more investment subsidies when the politician they are linked to joins the government, and a similar size decrease when the minister departs. In contrast, we do not observe these outcomes for municipalities where ministers lived as children. These findings indicate that altruism toward childhood friends and family does not fuel pork-barreling, and suggest that altruism toward adulthood social relations or career concerns matter. We also present complementary evidence suggesting that observed pork-barreling is the result of soft influence of ministers, rather than of their formal control over the administration they lead.

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Sea level rise risks, adaptation strategies, and real estate prices in Singapore

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Journal of Public Economics

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105290

Sumit Agarwal , Yu Qin , Tien Foo Sing , Changwei Zhan

This study exploits the Singapore Prime Minister’s announcement of the areas affected by sea level rise (SLR) within the country and its adaptation strategies valued at 100 billion Singapore dollars. Utilizing transaction-level data with exact locations, we find that public housing prices dropped by 7.2% in SLR areas four years after the announcement relative to non-SLR areas. In SLR areas with adaptation, the price depreciation was mitigated to 0.6%. In the private housing sector, freehold properties benefit more from adaptation strategies than leasehold properties. We calibrate the long-term discount rates before and after the shock at 2.27% and 2.14% in SLR areas and 2.35% and 2.12% in SLR areas with adaptation, respectively. (JEL H43, R21, R28, R38, R51, Q54)

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Populism and ideological convergence: Evidence from a multiparty system

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Journal of Public Economics

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105271

Tuuli Tähtinen

Populist parties have gained significant power in European politics in the last decades, raising concerns about the potentially contagious effect of populism. I study how populist party representation in local councils affects other parties’ ideological positions. I use variation created by close elections to identify ideological shifts resulting from a change in party representation, holding voter preferences constant. I use candidate-level data from a voting advice application to estimate ideological positions, modeling candidates’ responses using item response theory to obtain measures of ideology that are comparable across election years. The results show that increased populist representation causes the ideological spectrum among other parties’ candidates in the municipality to become more concentrated. One additional seat for the populist party reduces the interquartile range of candidate positions by 9 %. While there is initial ideological convergence between mainstream and populist parties, it does not persist as the populist party continues to gain more seats. These effects take place only on the liberal-conservative dimension, while positions on the economic dimension are unaffected. The results demonstrate that increased populist representation influences other parties and causes ideological convergence within the candidate base.

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The effect of feedback on student performance

IF 4.8 1区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Journal of Public Economics

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105274

Esteban M. Aucejo , Kelvin Wong

This study examines the effect of scalable personalized feedback messages from professors on student performance in both synchronous and asynchronous classes, with a specific focus on first-generation students. We conducted a randomized controlled trial involving approximately 3,000 students across 39 introductory economics classes at Arizona State University. The feedback messages were tailored using information from students’ initial academic performance and surveys completed at the beginning of the semester. Our findings reveal that first-generation students in synchronous classes benefit significantly from personalized feedback, while no such effects are observed in asynchronous classes. In addition, the results suggest that aiding first-generation students in coping with adverse academic shocks, combined with professor encouragement, can be important in enhancing the effectiveness of feedback.

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Industrialization and pollution: The long-term Impact of early-life exposure on human capital formation

IF 4.8 1区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Journal of Public Economics

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105270

Pan Chen

Air quality in developing countries is often much worse than in developed economies, yet evidence on the long-term human capital effects of air pollution in these settings is limited. This paper uses a cohort difference-in-differences approach to examine the impact of early-life exposure to air pollution during China’s 1950s industrialization on human capital formation. It assumes that economic opportunities linked to industrial plants impact upwind and downwind counties similarly within a 30-mile radius. The results indicate that moving from the 25

^{th}

to 75

^{th}

percentile of exposure reduces children’s education by approximately 0.11 years. This effect size is notably larger than the impacts of three other factors affecting educational attainment in both China and the United States.

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One hundred years of U.S. state taxation

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Journal of Public Economics

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105273

Sarah Robinson , Alisa Tazhitdinova

We analyze the evolution of U.S. state tax rates since 1910 and state tax revenues from 1942 until 2022. Tax policy shifted rapidly at the beginning of the 20^th century, but in many ways has remained remarkably stable over the past fifty years. Even as tax rates change frequently and vary widely across states, the degree of heterogeneity across states in rates and revenues is very similar over time. We document two key insights for empirical researchers using variation in tax policy for identification. First, tax changes do not appear to be driven by economic conditions, as neither the timing of tax changes nor tax rates themselves exhibit a predictable pattern around state recessions. Second, throughout the time period we study, many tax changes occur simultaneously, particularly for personal, corporate, and sales taxes. Because the coinciding changes are typically moving in the same direction, researchers should use caution when attributing effects to a specific type of tax, and we show that estimates can be sensitive to controlling for additional tax rates.

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The effect of war on redistribution preferences

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Journal of Public Economics

Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2024.105284

Alexei Zakharov , Philipp Chapkovski

Do wars change preferences for redistributive state policies? We analyze this question using a preregistered survey experiment involving

N = 3920

respondents in Russia conducted during the Russo-Ukrainian war. The order of questions in the survey was manipulated to remind some respondents of the war before measuring the outcome variables. We find that among individuals who favor the war, the war reminder increases preferences for redistribution. Our two-part design allows us to investigate the channels for this effect; we find that it is partly due to increased trust in the government. We also observe an increase in prosocial preferences among individuals who support the war, but this effect is not associated with the increase in redistribution preferences.

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