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Fiscal policy and politicians’ term length 

Cipullo, Davide; Franzoni, Federico; Klarin, Jonas (Publication date: 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 (Publication date: 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 (Publication date: 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 (Publication date: 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 (Publication date: 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 (Publication date: 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 (Publication date: 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 (Publication date: 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 ...

Measuring the negative externalities of a private leisure activity: hooligans and pickpockets around the stadium [WP] 

Montolio, Daniel; Planells Struse, Simón (Publication date: 2017-09-14)

Given the recent increase observed in crime and violence related to sport activities and the subsequent need for governments to devote more resources to deter this pattern, this article presents empirical evidence that ...

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 (Publication date: 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 ...

Do universities affect firms’ location decisions? Evidence from Spain 

Duch Brown, Néstor; García Estévez, Javier (Publication date: 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 ...

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

Costa, M. Teresa (Maria Teresa), 1951-; Trujillo-Baute, Elisa (Publication date: 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 ...

Cheaper Child Care, More Children 

Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna (Publication date: 2017-10-23)

We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting ...

Local labor market effects of public employment [WP] 

Jofre Monseny, Jordi; Silva Becerra, José Ignacio; Vázquez Grenno, Javier (Publication date: 2017-06-12)

This paper quantifies the impact of public employment on local labor markets in the long-run. We adopt two quantitative approaches and apply them to the case of Spanish cities. In the first, we develop a 3-sector (public, ...

The hidden dimensions of urbanity 

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. (Publication date: 2017-10-09)

Cities are more than centers of production. This paper introduces new spatial variables in order to gain new insights into the role cities play as centers of leisure, consumption and beauty. First, a revealed preference ...

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

Rodríguez Planas, Núria; Secor, Alan; Balanzó Joue, Rafael de (Publication date: 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 (Publication date: 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 (Publication date: 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 ...

Should large Spanish municipalities be financially compensated? Costs and benefits of being a capital/central municipality [WP-IEB] 

Bosch Roca, Núria; Espasa Queralt, Marta; Montolio, Daniel (Publication date: 2017-09-27)

This paper analyse the costs and benefits of being a capital or central municipality, where central costs are understood to be incurred specifically as a result of the problems large municipalities located at the centre ...

Agglomeration, tax competition, and fiscal equalization 

Wrede, Matthias (Publication date: 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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