The public concern that immigrant families might be using a disproportionate share of social benefits and transmitting some form of public dependency to their children, combined with the rising levels of immigrants entering the country, fueled the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act in 1996, which limited public assistance to many immigrant families. T...

Understanding the link between temperature and educational outcomes is important in assessing the returns to various schooling interventions and the potential welfare impacts of climate change. Using student-level administrative data for the largest public school district in the United States, I estimate the causal impact of hot temperature on high-stakes exams and subsequent educational attain...

The threat of zebra mussel invasion into the Western United States grows every year, though little is known about their impact once populations are established. This paper combines economic and biological models to account for the uncertainty in both severity of damages and timing. We find that expected loss to the households in the Columbia River Basin will be about $1.94 million annually. The...

Whether called ‘planning’ or ‘zoning’, land markets are regulated in many cities and countries over the world. These interventions ensure the provision of certain amenities but researchers are increasingly becoming aware of the repercussions they have in land and housing markets, as well as in other segments of the economy. This chapter introduces welfare economics – though not an approach wide...

The goal of this paper is to identify key issues concerning the nature of competition in health care markets and its impacts on quality and social welfare and to identify pertinent findings from the theoretical and empirical literature on this topic. The theoretical literature in economics on competition and quality, the theoretical literature in health economics on this topic, and the empirica...

Understanding the link between temperature and educational outcomes is important in assessing the efficiency and equity implications of various schooling interventions and the potential welfare impacts of climate change. Using student-level administrative data for the largest public school district in the United States, I estimate the causal impact of hot temperature on high-stakes exam perform...

The environmental impacts of 2 alternative UK broiler production systems that aim to improve bird welfare (a lower stocking density indoor system and the same system combined with heat exchangers for ventilation air) were compared with the baseline standard indoor system of broiler production. Furthermore, the environmental impacts of egg production in the conventional battery cage system (bann...

This research estimates the effects of COVID-19 on U.S. supply and demand for salmon over two distinct periods. The first period reflects year (2020) since outbreak, second covers outbreak’s (2021). prices, domestic production, imports are analysed through graphics, elasticities, spatial welfare economics derived from equilibrium displacement model market. In year, caused a reduction in demand....