There are few countries where the state and the policy and intellectual community have been as committed to poverty eradication—both in terms of rhetoric and through a range of subsidies and an array of targeted poverty reduction programs—as India. In 2006–07, there were at least 151 centrally sponsored schemes (CSS), entailing annual expenditures of about Rs.72,000 crore. Of this, about Rs.64,...

We analyze voting on subsidies for professional sports facilities in Harris County (Houston), Texas and Brown County (Green Bay), Wisconsin to learn more about voter preferences for these subsidies. The results differ somewhat between the two jurisdictions, as do the nature of the supports being proposed and the communities. One consistent result is that voting precincts that have a relatively ...

Subsidies have become increasingly important tools of industrial policy due to the gradual liberalization of trade and finance since the 1960s. Still, there is considerable variation in subsidy levels in industrialized countries. In this paper, I seek to explain the variation in the levels of industrial subsidies among OECD countries in the period 1989-1995. I test the impact of both domestic p...

Over half a million children in the United States are currently in foster care, many of whom are at risk for long-lasting emotional and health problems. Because research suggests that adoption may be one of the most promising options for the placement of these at-risk children, various policies have been introduced at all levels of government to encourage adoption. In 1980, Congress passed the ...

Larvae of intertidal species develop at sea and must return to adult habitats to replenish populations. Similarly, nutrients, detritus and plankton provide important subsidies spurring growth and reproduction of macroalgae and filter-feeding invertebrates that form the foundation of intertidal communities. Together, these factors determine the density and intensity of interactions among communi...

We provide a new modeling framework to analyze a subsidy allocation problem with endogenous market response, under a budget constraint on the total amount of subsidies that the central planner can pay. The central planner’s objective is to maximize the aggregated market consumption of a good, or equivalently, to maximize the consumer surplus. Using our framework, we identify sufficient conditio...

In this paper we examine the impact of the combined state and federal mortgage interest tax subsidies to homeownership on homeownership attainment, using panel data from 1984 to 2007 and exploiting the fact that the value of these subsidies may vary by income group across states and over time and depending on local housing market conditions and lending standards. We also exploit the fact that h...

Increases in income inequality have been associated with worsening political polarisation and disenchantment systems (Winkler, 2019). The global economic situation following the COVID-19 pandemic Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has resulted high inflation sharp increases energy food prices, which disproportionately affect low-income vulnerable households could long-lasting impacts on...