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2018
2017
Satya R. Chakravarty, Nachiketa Chattopadhyay, Nora Lustig , and Rodrigo Aranda Balcazar . 2017. Measuring Directional Mobility: The Bartholomew and Prais-Bibby Indices Reconsidered . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1720.
Raymundo M. Campos-Vazquez and Nora Lustig . 2017. Labour income inequality in Mexico: Puzzles solved and unsolved . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1719.
Ali Enami . 2017. Labor versus Capital in the Provision of Public Services: Estimating the Marginal Products of Inputs in the Production of Student Outcomes . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1718.
Jacqueline Fiore . 2017. The Impact of Subsidized Antimalarials on Treatment Seeking Behavior . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1717.
Christian Daude, Nora Lustig , Angel Melguizo, and Jose Ramon Perea . 2017. On the middle 70%. The impact of fiscal policy on the emerging middle class in Latin America using Commitment to Equity . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1716.
Patrick Button . 2017. Seniors for Hire? Age Discrimination, “Sex-Plus-Age” Discrimination, and the Effectiveness of Age Discrimination Laws . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1715.
Nora Lustig . 2017. El impacto del sistema tributario y el gasto social en la distribucion del ingreso y la pobreza en America Latina. Una aplicacion del marco metodologico del proyecto Compromiso con la Equidad (CEQ) . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1714.
Nora Lustig . 2017. The Sustainable Development Goals, Domestic Resource Mobilization and the Poor . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1713.
Ali Enami . 2017. An application of the CEQ Effectiveness indicators: The case of Iran . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1712.
Ali Enami . 2017. Measuring the Effectiveness of Taxes and Transfers in Fighting Inequality and Poverty . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1711.
Nizar Jouini, Nora Lustig , Ahmed Moummi, and Abebe Shimeles. 2017. Fiscal Incidence and Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Tunisia . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1710.
Margarita Beneke, Nora Lustig , and Jose Andres Oliva. 2017. The impact of taxes and social spending on inequality and poverty in El Salvador . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1709.
Michael Spanbauer . 2017. Self-defense Policy, Justified Homicides, and Race . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1708.
Michael Spanbauer , Lindsay Johnson, and Patrick Button . 2017. How Valuable are National Parks? Evidence from a Proposed National Park Expansion in Alaska . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1707.
Jacqueline Fiore . 2017. The Impact of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid Expansion on Medicaid Spending by Health Care Service Category . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1706.
James Alm and Mir Ahmad Khan. 2017. Tax Policy Effects on Business Incentives in Pakistan . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1705.
James Alm and Daniel Teles . 2017. State and Federal Tax Policy toward Nonprofit Organizations . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1704.
James Alm and Ali Enami . 2017. Do Government Subsidies to Low-income Individuals Affect Interstate Migration? Evidence from the Massachusetts Health Care Reform . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1703.
James Alm . 2017. Is Economics Useful for Public Policy? . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1702.
Nora Lustig . 2017. Fiscal Policy, Income Redistribution and Poverty Reduction in Low and Middle Income Countries . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1701.
2016
Yongzheng Liu and James Alm . 2016. “Province-Managing-County” Fiscal Reform, Land Expansion, and Urban Growth in China . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1625.
James Alm , Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Chandler McClellan. 2016. Corruption and Firm Tax Evasion . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1624.
James Alm , Jin Man Lee, Zackary Hawley, and Joshua J. Miller. 2016. Property Tax Delinquency and its Spillover Effects on Nearby Properties . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1623.
James Alm , Ruslan A. Grigoriev, Marat V. Kramin, and Timur V. Kramin. 2016. Testing Kuznets’ Hypothesis for Russian Regions: Trends and Interpretations . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1622.
James Alm , Trey Dronyk-Trosper , and Steven M. Sheffrin . 2016. What Drives State Tax Reforms? . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1621.
James Alm , David M. Bruner, and Michael McKee. 2016. Honesty or Dishonesty of Taxpayer Communications in an Enforcement Regime . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1620.
James Alm , Kim M. Bloomquist, and Michael McKee. 2016. When You Know Your Neighbour Pays Taxes: Information, Peer Effects, and Tax Compliance . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1619.
James Alm and Jay A. Soled. 2016. W(h)ither the Tax Gap? . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1618.
James Alm and Steven M. Sheffrin . 2016. Using Behavioral Economics in Public Economics . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1617.
Artidiatun Adji and James Alm . 2016. Testing for Ricardian Equivalence in Indonesia . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1616.
Bibek Adhikari and James Alm . 2016. Evaluating the Economic Effects of Flat Tax Reforms Using Synthetic Control Methods . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1615.
Jon Jellema, Nora Lustig , Astrid Haas, and Sebastian Wolf. 2016. The Impact of Taxes, Transfers, and Subsidies on Inequality and Poverty in Uganda . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1614.
Nora Lustig and Daniel Teles . 2016. Inequality Convergence: How Sensitive are Results to the Choice of Data? . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1613.
Nora Lustig . 2016. Fiscal Policy, Inequality and the Poor in the Developing World . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1612.
Rodrigo Aranda Balcazar , Michael Darden , and Donald Rose . 2016. Information, Choice, and Obesity: Measuring the Impact of the New York City Calorie Labeling Mandate on Obesity . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1611.
Antonio N. Bojanic . 2016. The Impact of Fiscal Decentralization on Growth, Inflation, and Inequality in the Americas . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1610.
Antonio N. Bojanic . 2016. Fiscal Decentralization, Economic Freedom, and Political and Civil Liberties in the Americas . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1609.
Carlos Rodríguez-Castelán, Luis F. López-Calva, Nora Lustig , and Daniel Valderrama. 2016. Understanding the Dynamics of Labor Income Inequality in Latin America . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1608.
Wei Long . 2016. Does Longer Incarceration Deter or Incapacitate Crimes? New Evidence from Truth-in-Sentencing Reform . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1607.
Daniel Teles . 2016. Do Tax Credits Increase Charitable Giving? Evidence from Arizona and Iowa . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1606.
Ali Enami , Nora Lustig , and Alireza Taqdiri. 2016. Fiscal Policy, Inequality and Poverty in Iran: Assessing the Impact and Effectiveness of Taxes and Transfers . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1605.
Stefano Barbieri and Sean Higgins. 2016. The Political Economy of Antipoverty Spending and Poverty Measurement . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1604.
Nora Lustig and Jacques Silber. 2016. Global Poverty Lines: An Introduction . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1603.
Benjamin Sperisen . 2016. Bounded Memory, Reputation, and Impatience . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1602.
Patrick Button . 2016. Expanding Employment Discrimination Protections for Individuals with Disabilities: Evidence from California . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1601.
2015
Benjamin Sperisen . 2015. Bad Reputation under Bounded and Fading Memory . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1527.
James Alm and Bibek Adhikari . 2015. The Role of Tax Exemptions and Credits . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1526.
Yang Wang . 2015. Education Expansion and Decline in Tertiary Premium in Brazil: 1995-2013 . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1525.
Bibek Adhikari . 2015. When Does Introducing a Value-Added Tax Increase Economic Efficiency? Evidence from the Synthetic Control Method . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1524.
Bibek Adhikari and James Alm . 2015. The Internal Revenue Service and the American Middle Class . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1523.
Raymundo M. Campos-Vazquez, Luis F. López-Calva, and Nora Lustig . 2015. Declining Wages for College-Educated Workers in Mexico: Are Younger or Older Cohorts Hurt the Most? . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1522.
Whitney Ruble . 2015. The Effect of Contracting Out Low Performing Schools on Student Performance . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1521.
David Neumark, Ian Burn, and Patrick Button . 2015. Is It Harder for Older Workers to Find Jobs? New and Improved Evidence from a Field Experiment . NBER Working Paper 21669.
Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Nora Lustig , and Daniel Teles . 2015. Appraising Cross-National Income Inequality Databases: An Introduction . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1520.
Stefano Barbieri and John H. Y. Edwards . 2015. Middle Class Flight from Post-Katrina New Orleans: A Theoretical Analysis of Inequality and Schooling . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1519.
Patrick Button . 2015. A Replication of 'Do Voters Affect or Elect Policies? Evidence from the U.S. House' (The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2004) . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1518.
James Alm and Brian Erard. 2015. Using Public Information to Estimate Self-Employment Earnings of Informal Suppliers . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1517.
Bibek Adhikari and James Alm . 2015. Did Latvia's Flat Tax Reform Improve Growth? Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1516.
James Alm . 2015. Analyzing and Reforming Tunisia's Tax System . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1515.
James Alm , Jeremy Clark, and Kara Leibel. 2015. Enforcement, Socio-Economic Diversity, and Tax Filing Compliance in the United States . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1514.
James Alm and Mir Ahmad Khan. 2015. Assessing and Reforming Enterprise Taxation in Pakistan . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1513.
James Alm , Kim M. Bloomquist, and Michael McKee. 2015. On the External Validity of Laboratory Tax Compliance Experiments . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1512.
James Alm and J. Sebastian Leguizamon . 2015. Whither the Marriage Tax? Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1511.
James Alm and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez. 2015. Re-designing Equalization Transfers: An Application to South Africa's Provincial Equitable Share Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1510.
James Alm . 2015. Understanding and Combatting Tax Evasion . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1509.
James Alm , Timothy R. Hodge, Gary Sands, and Mark Skidmore. 2015. Detroit Property Tax Delinquency—Social Contract in Crisis . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1508.
Nora Lustig . 2015. Inequality and Fiscal Redistribution in Middle Income Countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru and South Africa . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1505.
Jonathan Pritchett and Herman Freudenberger . 2015. A Peculiar Sample: a reply to Steckel and Ziebarth . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1504.
Michael Darden , Donna B. Gilleskie, and Koleman Strumpf. 2015. Smoking and Mortality: New Evidence from a Long Panel . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1503.
Sean Higgins and Nora Lustig . 2015. Can a Poverty-Reducing and Progressive Tax and Transfer System Hurt the Poor? . CGD Working Paper 405.
Maynor Cabrera, Nora Lustig , and Hilcias Moran. 2015. Fiscal Policy, Inequality and the Ethnic Divide in Guatemala . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1502.
Charles Stoecker, Nicholas J. Sanders, and Alan Barreca . 2015. Success is Something to Sneeze at: Influenza Mortality in Regions that Send Teams to the Super Bowl . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1501.
2014
James Alm and Jay Shimshack . 2014. Environmental Enforcement and Compliance: Lessons from Pollution, Safety, and Tax Settings . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1409.
James Alm and David L. Sjoquist. 2014. State Government Revenue Recovery from the Great Recession . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1408.
James Alm and Jay A. Soled. 2014. Tax Basis Determinations, Pass-Through Entities, and Taxpayer Noncompliance . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1407.
James Alm and Kyle Borders. 2014. Estimating the "Tax Gap" at the State Level: The Case of Georgia's Personal Income Tax . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1406.
Ilhom Abdulloev, Ira N. Gang, and Myeong-Su Yun . 2014. Migration, Education, and the Gender Gap in Labour Force Participation . IZA Discussion Paper 8226.
James Alm and Carolyn J. Bourdeaux. 2014. Applying Behavioral Economics to the Public Sector . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1405.
James Alm and Denvil Duncan. 2014. Estimating Tax Agency Efficiency . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1404.
James Alm . 2014. Does an Uncertain Tax System Encourage "Aggressive Tax Planning"? . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1403.
James Alm , J. Sebastian Leguizamon , and Susane Leguizamon . 2014. Revisiting the Income Tax Effects of Legalizing Same-sex Marriages . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1402.
James Alm , Robert D. Buschman, and David L. Sjoquist. 2014. Foreclosures and Local Government Revenues from the Property Tax: The Case of Georgia School Districts . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1401.
2013
Charles W. Calomiris and Jonathan Pritchett . 2013. Betting on Secession: Quantifying Political Events Surrounding Slavery and the Civil War . NBER Working Paper No. 19625.
Qiyan Ong, Yohanes Eko Riyanto, Walter Theseira, and Steven Sheffrin . 2013. The Self-Image Signaling Roles of Voice in Decision-Making . Nanyang Technological University Economic Growth Centre Working Paper Series 1303.
Sean Higgins , Nora Lustig , Whitney Ruble , and Timothy Smeeding. 2013. Comparing the Incidence of Taxes and Social Spending in Brazil and the United States . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1317.
Nora Lustig , Florencia Amabile, Marisa Bucheli, George Gray Molina, Sean Higgins , Miguel Jaramillo Wilson, Jimenez Pozo, Claudiney Pereira , Carola Pessino, Maximo Rossi, John Scott, Ernesto Yanez Aguilar. 2013. The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay: An Overview . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1316.
Sean Higgins and Nora Lustig . 2013. Measuring Impoverishment: An Overlooked Dimension of Fiscal Incidence . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1315.
Nora Lustig , Luis F. López-Calva, and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez. 2013. Deconstructing the Decline in Inequality in Latin America . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1314.
Nora Lustig , Carola Pessino, and John Scott. 2013. The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay: An Overview . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1313.
Scott Cunningham and Keith Finlay . 2013. Identifying Demand Responses to Illegal Drug Supply Interdictions . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1312.
Sean Higgins , Nora Lustig , Julio Ramirez, and Billy Swanson. 2013. Social Spending, Taxes and Income Redistribution in Paraguay . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1311.
Roberta Calvet and James Alm . 2013. Empathy, Sympathy, and Tax Compliance . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1310.
James Alm . 2013. Expanding the Theory of Tax Compliance from Individual to Group Motivations . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1309.
James Alm , Robert D. Buschman, and David L. Sjoquist. 2013. How Did Foreclosures Affect Property Values in Georgia School Districts? . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1308.
James Alm . 2013. A Convenient Truth: Property Taxes and Revenue Stability . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1307.
James Alm and Jay A. Soled. 2013. Automobiles, Tax Mischaracterizations, and the Multibillion Dollar Price Tag . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1306.
James Alm and Yongzheng Liu. 2013. Did China's Tax-for-Fee Reform Improve Farmers' Welfare in Rural Areas? . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1305.
James Alm and Yongzheng Liu. 2013. China's Tax-for-Fee Reform and Village Inequality . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1304.
James Alm and Abel Embaye. 2013. Using Dynamic Panel Methods to Estimate Shadow Economies Around the World, 1984-2006 . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1303.
Otávio Bartalotti . 2013. Fixed Bandwidth Asymptotics for Regression Discontinuity Designs . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1302.
Otávio Bartalotti . 2013. GMM Efficiency and IPW Estimation for Nonsmooth Functions . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1301.
Alan I. Barreca , Karen Clay, Olivier Deschenes, Michael Greenstone, Joseph S. Shapiro. 2013. Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century . NBER Working Paper 18692.
2012
Nora Lustig and Carola Pessino. 2012. Social Spending and Income Redistribution in Argentina During the 2000s: the Rising Role of Noncontributory Pensions . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1221.
Alan Barreca and Marianne E. Page. 2012. A Pint for a Pound? Reevaluating the Relationship Between Minimum Drinking Age Laws and Birth Outcomes . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1220.
Nora Lustig and Sean Higgins . 2012. Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ): Estimating the Incidence of Social Spending, Subsidies and Taxes Handbook . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1219.
Nora Lustig , Luis F. López-Calva, and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez. 2012. Declining Inequality in Latin America in the 2000s: The Cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1218.
Marisa Bucheli, Nora Lustig , Maximo Rossi, and Florencia Amabile. 2012. Social Spending, Taxes and Income Redistribution in Uruguay . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1217.
Nora Lustig , George Gray Molina, Sean Higgins , Wilson Jimenez, Veronica Paz, Claudiney Pereira , Carola Pessino, John Scott, and Ernesto Yanez. 2012. The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru: A Synthesis of Results . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1216.
James Alm , Robert D. Buschman, and David L. Sjoquist. 2012. Rethinking Local Government Reliance on the Property Tax . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1215.
James Alm and Keith Finlay . 2012. Who Benefits from Tax Evasion? Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1214.
James Alm . 2012. Measuring, Explaining, and Controlling Tax Evasion: Lessons from Theory, Experiments, and Field Studies . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1213.
Erich Kirchler, Stephan Muehlbacher, Katharina Gangl, Eva Hofmann, Christoph Kogler, Maria Pollai, and James Alm . 2012. Combining Psychology and Economics in the Analysis of Compliance: From Enforcement to Cooperation . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1212.
James Alm and Chandler McClellan. 2012. Tax Morale and Tax Compliance from the Firm's Perspective . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1211.
James Alm , Erich Kirchler, Stephan Muehlbacher, Katharina Gangl, Eva Hofmann, Christoph Kogler, and Maria Pollai. 2012. Rethinking the Research Paradigms for Analyzing Tax Compliance Behavior . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1210.
James Alm , William H. Kaempfer, and Edward Batte Sennoga. 2012. Baseball Salaries and Income Taxes: The "Home Field Advantage" of Income Taxes on Free Agent Salaries . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1209.
James Alm , Robert D. Buschman, and David L. Sjoquist. 2012. Citizen "Trust" as an Explanation of State Education Funding to Local School Districts . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1208.
James Alm and Benno Torgler. 2012. Do Ethics Matter? Tax Compliance and Morality . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1207.
James Alm and Mikhail I. Melnik. 2012. Does Online Cross-border Shopping Affect State Use Tax Liabilities? Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1206.
James Alm and Mikhail I. Melnik. 2012. Cross-border Shopping and State Use Tax Liabilities: Evidence from eBay Transactions . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1205.
Michael Darden . 2012. Smoking, Expectations, and Health: A Dynamic Stochastic Model of Lifetime Smoking Behavior . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1204.
James Alm and Asmaa El-Ganainy. 2012. Value-added Taxation and Consumption . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1203.
Nora Lustig and Sean Higgins . 2012. Fiscal Incidence, Fiscal Mobility and the Poor: A New Approach . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1202.
Raymundo Campos, Gerado Esquivel, and Nora Lustig . 2012. The Rise and Fall of Income Inequality in Mexico, 1989-2010 . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1201.
2011
Nora Lustig , Carola Pessino, George Gray Molina, Wilson Jimenez, Veronica Paz, Ernesto Yanez, Claudiney Pereira , and Sean Higgins . 2011. Fiscal Policy and Income Redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1124.
Nora Lustig . 2011. Scholars Who Became Practitioners: the Influence of Research on the Design, Evaluation and Political Survival of Mexico's Anti-poverty Program Progresa/Oportunidades . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1123.
Nora Lustig . 2011. Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ): A Diagnostic Framework to Assess Governments' Fiscal Policies Handbook . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1122.
Nora Lustig . 2011. Multidimensional Indices of Achievements and Poverty: What Do We Gain and What Do We . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1121.
Nancy Birdsall, Nora Lustig , and Darryl McLeod. 2011. Declining Inequality in Latin America: Some Economics, Some Politics . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1120.
Nora Lustig . 2011. Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ) A Diagnostic Framework to Assess Governments' Fiscal Policies Handbook . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1119.
Nora Lustig , Luis F. López Calva, and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez. 2011. The Decline in Inequality in Latin America: How Much, Since When and Why . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1118.
Darryl McLeod and Nora Lustig . 2011. Inequality and Poverty under Latin America's New Left Regimes . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1117.
Leandro M. Magnusson and Sophocles Mavroeidis. 2011. Identification Using Stability Restrictions . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1116.
Jonathan Pritchett and Mallorie Smith . 2011. Sequential Sales As a Test of Adverse Selection in the Market for Slaves . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1115.
Alan Barreca , Melanie Guldi, Jason M. Lindo, and Glen R. Waddell. 2011. Running and Jumping Variables in Regression Discontinuity Designs . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1001 (Revised version).
Jonathan Pritchett and Jessica Hayes . 2011. The Occupations of Slaves Sold in New Orleans: Missing Values, Cheap Talk, or Informative Advertising . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1113.
Nora Lustig and Jaime Ros. 2011. Latin America's Economic Challenges: Lessons for Emerging Economies . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1112.
Nora Lustig . 2011. The Knowledge Bank and Poverty Reduction . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1111.
Nora Lustig and Leonardo Gasparini. 2011. The Rise and Fall of Income Inequality in Latin America . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1110.
James Alm and Sally Wallace. 2011. Taxpayer Reporting Responses and the Tax Reform Act of 1986 . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1109.
James Alm and Edward B. Sennoga. 2011. Mobility, Competition, and the Distributional Effects of Tax Evasion . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1108.
James Alm and Janet Rogers. 2011. Do State Fiscal Policies Affect State Economic Growth? Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1107.
James Alm and Mikhail I. Melnik. 2011. Do eBay Sellers Comply with State Sales Taxes? Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1106.
James Alm and Abel Embaye. 2011. Explaining the Growth of Government Spending in South Africa . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1105.
James Alm and H. Spencer Banzhaf. 2011. Designing Economic Instruments for the Environment in a Decentralized Fiscal System . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1104.
James Alm . 2011. Municipal Finance of Urban Infrastructure: Knowns and Unknowns . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1103.
James Alm . 2011. Testing Behavioral Public Economics Theories in the Laboratory . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1102.
James Alm , Todd Cherry, Michael Jones, and Michael McKee. 2011. Taxpayer Information Assistance Services and Tax Compliance Behavior . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 1101.
2010
2009
2008
William H. Phillips . 2008. The Democratization of Invention in the American South: Antebellum and Post Bellum Technology Markets in the United States . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 0804.
John H. Y. Edwards and Christian Langpap. 2008. Fuel Choice, Indoor Air Pollution, and Children's Health . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 0803.
Leandro M. Magnusson . 2008. Tests in Censored Models when the Structural Parameters Are Not Identified . Tulane University Economics Working Paper 0802.
Charles Calomiris and Jonathan Pritchett . 2008. Preserving Slave Families for Profit: Traders' Incentives and Pricing in the New Orleans Slave Market . NBER Working Paper 14281.
Jonathan B. Pritchett and Myeong-Su Yun . 2008. The In-Hospital Mortality Rates of Slaves and Freemen: Evidence from Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855-1860 . IZA Discussion Paper 3652.
Ira N. Gang, Kunal Sen, and Myeong-Su Yun . 2008. Was the Mandal Commission Right? Living Standard Differences between Backward Classes and Other Social Groups in India . IZA Discussion Paper 3453.
Byung-Goo Kang and Myeong-Su Yun . 2008. Changes in Korean Wage Inequality, 1980-2005 . IZA Discussion Paper 3780.
Sumon Kumar Bhaumik, Ira N. Gang, and Myeong-Su Yun . 2008. Gender and Ethnicity in Post-Conflict Kosovo . World Institute for Development Economic Research Working Paper RP2008/43.
Ting Hu and Myeong-Su Yun . 2008. Is the Glass Ceiling Cracking? A Simple Test . IZA Discussion Paper 3518.
Joseph Francis Francois, Douglas Nelson , and Annette Pelkmans-Balaoing. 2008. Endogenous Protection in General Equilibrium: Estimating Political Weights in the EU . Johannes Kepler University Linz Department of Economics Working Paper 2008-15.
Keith Finlay . 2008. Effect of Employer Access to Criminal History Data on the Labor Market Outcomes of Ex-Offenders and Non-Offenders . NBER Working Paper 13935.
Keith Finlay and David Neumark. 2008. Is Marriage Always Good for Children? Evidence from Families Affected by Incarceration . NBER Working Paper 13928.