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Fiscal policy and politicians’ term length 

Cipullo, Davide; Franzoni, Federico; Klarin, Jonas (Fecha de publicación: 2026-01-20)

This paper investigates the causal effect of the term length of political executives on economic policy outcomes. To establish causality, we exploit the staggered adoption of four-year terms for governors across US states, ...

Intimate partner violence and income: Quasi-experimental evidence from the earned income tax credit 

Cesur, Resul; Rodríguez Planas, Núria; Roff, Jennifer; Simon, David (Fecha de publicación: 2026-01-20)

We estimate the impact of an exogenous increase in income on the prevalence and counts of intimate partner violence (IPV). We exploit time and family-size variation in the earned income tax credit (EITC) by comparing ...

Wealth tax enforcement: The role of tax and institutional design 

Durán Cabré, José María; Esteller Moré, Alejandro; Kotsogiannis, Christos; Salvadori, Luca (Fecha de publicación: 2026-01-20)

Enforcing wealth tax compliance among high-net-worth individuals is particularly challenging. Using administrative data on the Net Wealth Tax for Catalan taxpayers over the 2011–2020 period, this paper evaluates the impact ...

Female empowerment and intimate partner violence 

Calabresi, Elisabetta; Rodríguez Planas, Núria (Fecha de publicación: 2026-01-20)

The chapter reviews the economic literature on intimate partner violence (IPV), a widespread human rights violation affecting nearly one in three women globally and generating significant societal costs. It focuses on the ...

When policy meets weather: Extreme temperatures and workplace safety 

Bellés-Obrero, Cristina; Montresor, Giulia; Nicodemo, Catia (Fecha de publicación: 2026-01-20)

This paper estimates the causal effects of extreme temperatures and a related adaptation policy on workplace accidents in Spain, combining administrative records on occupational accidents with high-resolution weather data. ...

Fiscal drag with microsimulation: Evidence from Spanish tax records 

Balladares, Sofía; García-Miralles, Esteban (Fecha de publicación: 2025-09-08)

Fiscal drag arises when nominal tax parameters remain unchanged despite nominal income growth, thereby increasing effective tax rates and revenue. We use Spanish administrative tax records and a detailed microsimulation ...

Public Capital, Growth and Convergence in Spain. A Counterfactual Density 

Leonida, Leone; Montolio, Daniel (Fecha de publicación: 2018-02-12)

The purpose of this paper is to study the dynamics of growth and convergence in Spain for the period 1965-1995. We analyze the evolution of the per capita income distribution across Spanish provinces and estimate the effects ...

On the scope of agglomeration economies: Evidence from Catalan zip codes 

Jofre Monseny, Jordi (Fecha de publicación: 2018-01-31)

This paper aims at studying the scope of agglomerations economies empirically. In particular, two issues are explored. First, the industrial scope of agglomeration economies is analysed, by comparing the effects arising ...

Social pensions and intimate partner violence against older women 

Bellés-Obrero, Cristina; La Mattina, Giulia; Ye, Han (Fecha de publicación: 2024-11-25)

The prevalence and determinants of intimate partner violence (IPV) among older women are understudied. This paper documents that the incidence of IPV remains high at old ages and provides the first evidence of the impact ...

Relocation of the rich: migration in response to top tax rate changes from Spanish reforms [WP] 

Agrawal, David R.; Foremny, Dirk (Fecha de publicación: 2018-05-31)

A recent Spanish tax reform granted regions the authority to set income tax rates, resulting in substantial tax differentials. We use individual-level information from Social Security records over a period of one decade. ...

Resilience-Thinking Training for College Students: Evidence from a Randomized Trial 

Rodríguez Planas, Núria; Secor, Alan; Balanzó Joue, Rafael de (Fecha de publicación: 2024-04-09)

We conducted a randomized evaluation of a universal primary prevention intervention whose main goal was to increase the resilience of students from a large broad-access Hispanic Serving Institution and commuter urban ...

Fuel Poverty: Evidence from housing perspective 

Taltavull de la Paz, Paloma; Juárez, Francisco; Monllor, Paloma (Fecha de publicación: 2017-06-22)

The literature has traditionally approached fuel poverty as a result of poverty. Fuel poor are those households who cannot pay fuel bill and have to live in cold ambient, with grave effects on their health. As fuel poverty ...

A country of waiters: The economic consequences of tourism specialization 

Ouasbaa, Ghizlen (Fecha de publicación: 2024-11-25)

This paper examines the lasting impact of tourism specialization on per capita income in Spanish municipalities, aiming to understand the factors driving these effects. We employ two distinct approaches. The first one ...

The redistributive, stabiliser and insurance effects at territorial level of federal government budgets 

Bosch Roca, Núria; Espasa Queralt, Marta; Sorribas, Pilar (Fecha de publicación: 2018-02-16)

The aim of this study is to estimate the redistributive, stabiliser and insurance effects at territorial level of the federal budget of Australia, Spain, the USA and of the European Union. This analysis is carried out for ...

Income Insecurity and Mental Health in Pandemic Times 

Foremny, Dirk; Sorribas, Pilar; Vall Castelló, Judit (Fecha de publicación: 2022-12-22)

This paper provides novel evidence of the mental health effects of the Covid-19 outbreak. Between April 2020 and April 2022, we run four waves of a large representative survey in Spain, which we benchmark against a decade ...

Mobility and local income redistribution 

Roehrs, Sigrid; Stadelmann, David (Fecha de publicación: 2017-10-16)

Mobility may undermine local income redistribution in federal systems, because rich taxpayers can evade high taxes by moving to low tax jurisdictions. By analyzing a model of local income redistribution with endogenous ...

Do universities affect firms’ location decisions? Evidence from Spain 

Duch Brown, Néstor; García Estévez, Javier (Fecha de publicación: 2017-10-13)

Human capital, scientific research, and technology are the three chief mechanisms promoting knowledge spillovers from universities to firms. Based on a study of the impact of Spain’s 1983 University Reform Act (LRU), which ...

Fiscal knowledge and its impact on revealed MWTP in Covid times: Evidence from survey data 

Durán Cabré, José María; Esteller Moré, Alejandro; Rizzo, Leonzio; Secomandi, Riccardo (Fecha de publicación: 2023-03-29)

Individual preferences over public policies should ideally be based on the possession of correct information about their reality. To test whether this holds, we conducted four waves of a survey, every six months since May ...

Retail price effects of feed-in tariff regulation [WP IEB] 

Costa, M. Teresa (Maria Teresa), 1951-; Trujillo-Baute, Elisa (Fecha de publicación: 2017-09-18)

The feed-in tariff regulation is the wider spread promotion scheme used to encourage the take-up and development of generation from renewable energy sources in the EU, and the costs of resources devoted to this promotion ...

Agglomeration, tax competition, and fiscal equalization 

Wrede, Matthias (Fecha de publicación: 2017-10-23)

This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal equalization on asymmetric tax competition when positive agglomeration externalities are present. It shows that equalization of standardized tax revenue improves the spatial allocation ...

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