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Essays in Public Economics.

Anderson, Drew M.

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Essays in Public Economics.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Essays in Public Economics./
作者:	Anderson, Drew M.
面頁冊數:	134 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-09(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-09A(E).
標題:	Economic theory. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3702060
ISBN:	9781321731316

Essays in Public Economics.
Anderson, Drew M.

Essays in Public Economics. - 134 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-09(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2015.

This is a collection of essays in public economics, focusing on how public policies shape the financial decisions of firms and households. The first two chapters explore sources of private funding for higher education, how these interact with public policy, and how this affects decisions of both schools and students. The third chapter turns attention to the financial products households use to receive Social Security payments.

ISBN: 9781321731316Subjects--Topical Terms:

1556984
Economic theory.

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520 $a Chapter 2 is joint work with Sara Goldrick-Rab. We evaluate a privately funded need-based grant program serving students beginning at public two-year colleges in Wisconsin. Each year around 600 already-enrolled, full-time students with financial need are randomly selected to be offered a renewable grant of $1,800 per year, while a control group receives no grant offer. The grant reduces the net price of college (tuition plus living expenses minus other grants) by 25 to 40 percent. Using multiple cohorts of students, we estimate small positive impacts of the grant offer on continued enrollment, grades, credits, degrees, and transfers, but we generally cannot rule out that the grant offer has no impact. We can rule out impacts larger than a 2.6 percentage-point increase in the probability of persisting to a third semester of college, per $1,000 in aid offered.
520 $a Chapter 3 is joint work with Alexander Strand and J. Michael Collins. This study is motivated by the fact that the US Treasury stopped delivering Social Security payments by paper check in March 2013, moving to electronic payments. The goal was to lower administrative expenses, but the change may have imposed transition costs on payees forced to adopt new financial products. This study characterizes households facing these costs by linking administrative data on Social Security payments to a nationally representative survey on use of bank accounts and financial services. We find that unbanked households disproportionately receive payments for disabilities, have low assets, and use costly alternative financial services. Still, we conclude that the costs imposed by the policy change are more limited than previous studies would suggest, because the unbanked payment recipient population is small and generally willing to take up electronic payments even before they are required to do so.
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