1. Refereed Journal // 2006

    Does the Representation of Household Behavior Matter for Welfare Analysis of Tax-Benefit Policies? An introduction

    further co-authors: Michal Myck, Javier Ruiz-Castillo and Frederic Vermeulen. A widely shared intuition holds that individual control over money matters for the decision process within the household and the…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2006

    Competition in the public school sector: Evidence on strategic interaction among US school districts

    This paper provides evidence on strategic interaction among local school districts. The analysis makes use of a significant change in the institutional environment for school districts in Michigan in 1996,…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2006

    Policy innovation in local jurisdictions: Testing for neighbourhood influence in school choice policies

    Before making difficult decisions, individuals tend to collect information on decision makers in reference groups. With respect to policy innovations in a decentralized public sector, this may give rise to…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2006

    Collective models of household labour supply with non-convex budget sets and non-participation: a calibration approach

    further co-authors: Michal Myck, Javier Ruiz-Castillo. We present a procedure to compare the collective and unitary models of household labor supply, focusing on tax reform analysis. The procedure entails…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2006

    Who receives the money matters: simulating the Working Families' Tax Credit in the UK and some European tax reforms

    further co-authors: Nicolas Moreau, Javier Ruiz-Castillo and Frederic Vermeulen A framework for simplified implementation of the collective model of labor supply decisions is presented in the context of…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2006

    Evaluating the move to a linear tax system in Germany and other European countries: the choice of the representation of household decision processes does matter

    further co-authors: Michal Myck, Javier Ruiz-Castillo and Frederic Vermeulen. We compare the collective and unitary models with regard to the analysis of tax reforms. A unitary model is estimated on micro…