IEB (Institut d’Economia de Barcelona): Envíos recientes
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Fiscal policy and politicians’ term length
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
Financial constraints and the failure of innovation projects [WP]
Theoretical and empirical approaches have stressed the existence of financial constraints in innovative activities of firms. This paper analyses the role of financial obstacles on the likelihood of abandoning an innovation ...
Bohemians, human capital, and regional economic growth
An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region’s lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains ...
Historical urban growth in Europe (1300–1800)
This paper analyses the evolution of the European urban system from a long-term perspective (from 1300 to 1800) considering the historical data set of Bairoch et al. (1988). Using the method recently proposed by Clauset ...
Do personality traits affect productivity? Evidence from the LAB
While survey data supports a strong relationship between personality and labor market outcomes, the exact mechanisms behind this association remain unexplored. In this paper, we take advantage of a controlled laboratory ...
Suggesting an alternative electoral proportional system. Blank votes count
I consider a two-party parliamentary election where parties compete on a quality (or valence) dimension. First I motivate why in such an election a voter may decide to cast a blank vote. Second I define a new voting system, ...
Mechanisms of peer interactions between native and non-native students: rejection or integration?
This paper focuses on mechanisms of “peer interactions” among native and non-native students. We present a theoretical framework based on Lazear (2001) education production model and on the “sub-cultural” sociological ...
Popularity shocks and political selection
We observe that popularity shocks are crucial for electoral accountability beyond their effects on voters’ behaviors. By focusing on Brazilian politics, we show that the disclosure of audit reports on the (mis)use of federal ...
The elasticity of taxable income: A meta-regression analysis
The elasticities of taxable (ETI) and broad income (EBI) are key parameters in optimal tax and welfare analysis. To examine the large variation in estimates found in the literature, I conduct a comprehensive meta-regression ...
Neighborhood effects and parental involvement in the intergenerational transmission of education
We analyze the intergenerational transmission of education focusing on the interplay between family and neighborhood effects. We develop a theoretical model suggesting that both neighborhood quality and parental effort are ...
Do short-term rental platforms affect housing Markets? Evidence from AirBnb in Barcelona [WP]
In this paper, we assess the impact of the arrival and expansion of Airbnb on housing rents and prices in the city of Barcelona. Examining highly detailed data on rents and both transaction and posted prices, we use several ...
Costs of power supply flexibility: the indirect impact of a Spanish policy change
The increase in the share of supply from intermittent power sources changes the demand for power from traditional power plants. The power system demands more volume flexibility from traditional plants. Our goal is to better ...
The electoral effects of banning cars from the streets: Evidence from Barcelona’s superblocks
This paper explores the electoral effects of Barcelona’s Superblocks pedestrianization policy, a green initiative designed to reduce car traffic and enhance urban environments. Using census tract-level data from the 2023 ...
