What evidence do we have for this? i.e. how do we know personal insurance requirements have a significant effect on tenure choice?
Interesting, I'll take a look at it. Not sure how you're making the connection to homeownership. Care to elaborate?
Referring to the 2003 study by Haurin, Parcel, and Haurin, the authors do make a sophisticated attempt to isolate homeownership effects. They...
Note also the benefits to the children of homeowners, as measured by higher test scores and fewer behavioral problems. Homeowners are also...
There's no evidence that the guns are coming from those countries. See the GAO report I referenced above. And a concept usually alien to the...
Though Mexican authorities don't confiscate weapons from their own military. Your comment is irrelevant, as the study examines the effect of...
No, that's taken from a Government Accountability Office report. See page 20.
And yet in 2006 90% of confiscated guns can be traced back the US, a proportion that rose from 2004 after the expiration of the assault weapons ban.
Regarding this study, they are those weapons banned under the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban. If US gun policy has a substantial positive...
In a recent working paper, Dube, Dube, and Garcia-Ponce (2011) find that the expiration of a federal assault weapons ban in 2004 in the US "caused...
Via higher prices. Reducing foreign competition will raise the prices of domestic firms, allowing them to maintain higher prices (than would exist...
Can you explain how instabilities provide profit opportunities for the financial class?
So what is the rational trade policy? Why couldn't government instead provide the farmers' insurance, and do without explicit protectionism....
Why isn't privately provided farmer's insurance not enough to overcome this market failure?
Can you explain this in more detail?
I wonder whether economists today are confused that the Journal of Political Economy is actually a general economics publication. Indeed, I...
What evidence is there for this? How do you suggest supporting technical progress, given a smaller role for the military?
I've seen the term crop up in various places with divergent meanings. Originally, the term defined what we now call economics. More recently,...
And do you suggest replacing it with a more efficient incentive? For example, given the positive effects on children, perhaps the tax credit could...
The mortgage interest deduction (MID) is one of the most beloved by voters in the United States. However, most economists agree that it is a poor...
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