We argue that subsidized food distribution systems that fail to publicize how much food has been allocated to each local market will experience high rates of theft on the margin as they are expanded. We provide the first comparable cross-section of estimates of subsidized food theft. As predicted, in regions of the Philippines that were allocated more subsidized rice to distribute, a larger per...

This essay analyzes the market demand by eligible participants for in-kind transfer payments of the type that reduce the free market price participants would otherwise have to pay for the product being subsidized. Examples are the Food Stamp Program, public housing programs, and such proposed programs as rent subsidy and health co-insurance programs. Two common forms for such programs are analy...

A necessary condition for justifying a policy such as subsidized low-income housing, either via tenant-based rental assistance or construction of public or private projects, is that it has a real effect on market outcomes. In this paper, we examine one aspect of the real effect of subsidized housing – does it increase the housing stock? If subsidized housing raises the quantity of occupied hous...

It is well-known that there is no cost-sharing mechanism that is budget balanced, efficient, and dominant strategy incentive compatible (DSIC). The Vickrey auction is DSIC and efficient, but raises surplus revenue. In an environment where players have constant marginal values, we introduce the subsidized Vickrey auction (SVA) that uses surplus revenue to offset some of the production costs. By ...

This paper constructs a model where the identity of subsidized industries changes over time. An increase in the R&D subsidy raises innovation in industries that are currently subsidized, lowers innovation in the others, and raises aggregate innovation.

BACKGROUND Tobacco smoking in multiunit housing can lead to secondhand-smoke (SHS) exposure among nonsmokers, increased maintenance costs for units where smoking is permitted, and fire risks. During 2009-2010, approximately 7.1 million individuals lived in subsidized housing in the U.S., a large proportion of which were children, elderly, or disabled. PURPOSE This study calculated the annual ...

As the theoretical bases for the dynamics of spatially subsidized communities emerge, ecologists question whether spatially subsidized communities exhibit similar structure or dynamics to communities that receive strongly pulsed resources. In both cases, communities may be structured by responses to resources that are potentially absent at any given point in time (pulsed communities) or space (...

An important policy question is whether research and development (R&D) in new, emerging technologies should be subsidized more than R&D in other more mature technologies. In this paper I analyze if innovation externalities caused by knowledge spillovers from private …rms may warrant a di¤erentiated R&D policy. I …nd that R&D in emerging and mature technologies should not be subsidized equally. ...

In 1994/95, over half a million people, or 2.5% of the population aged 18 or older, received some form of government-subsidized home care (see Data sources and The questions). By 2003, although the estimated number of recipients had increased by about 125,000, the proportion of the population receiving such care—2.7%—did not differ significantly from the 1994/95 figure. In some ways, the charac...

By adopting nature conservation practices, farmers can enhance the environmental quality and biodiversity of their land. In this exploratory study, a behavioral intervention that focused on improving Dutch farmers' nature conservation practices was developed and tested. This intervention was based on insights derived from social psychology and combined tailored information and public commitment...