Behavioral Public Economics

Bernheim, B. Douglas; Taubinsky, Dmitry

doi:10.1016/bs.hesbe.2018.07.002

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“…12 Since youth also now have short-term certainty over deportation risk, this also reduces the possibility of "mistakes" based on short-term misestimation of the deportation risk, which could increase individual and social welfare (see, e.g. Finkelstein and Notowidigdo (2018) and Bernheim and Taubinsky (2018)).…”

Section: Daca Incentives For Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do Human Capital Decisions Respond to the Returns to Education? Evidence from DACA

Kuka

Shenhav

Shih

2020

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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This paper studies human capital responses to the availability of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which provides temporary work authorization and deferral from deportation for undocumented, high-school-educated youth. We use a sample of young adults that migrated to the United States as children to implement a difference-in-difference design that compares noncitizen immigrants (“eligible”) to citizen immigrants (“ineligible”) over time. We find that DACA significantly increased high school attendance and high school graduation rates, reducing the citizen-noncitizen gap in graduation by 40 percent. We also find positive, though imprecise, impacts on college attendance. (JEL H52, I21, I26, J13, J15, J24)

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Section: Daca Incentives For Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do Human Capital Decisions Respond to the Returns to Education? Evidence from DACA

Kuka

Shenhav

Shih

2020

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

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“…Although, typically these letters are interpreted of being virtually costless,Allcott and Kessler (2019) argues that nudges entail significant costs for the nudge recipients and shows that the failure to take into account these costs overstates the effects of nudges on social welfare.4 This canonical theory ofAllingham and Sandmo (1972),Yitzhaki (1974), modeled after the economics of crime literature(Becker 1968), views the individual as a rational agent with some level of risk aversion who considers tax evasion as a gamble trading off the benefits of successful evasion against the costs of detection and punishment.5 Motivated by mounting evidence on various behavioral biases of taxpayers, Farhi and Gabaix (2019) develops a theory of optimal taxation with behavioral agents also incorporating nudges into this framework. For a recent review of behavioral public economics literature, see,Bernheim and Taubinsky (2018).…”

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Nudging for Tax Compliance: A Meta-Analysis

Antinyan

Asatryan

2019

SSRN Journal

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Taxpayer nudges-behavioral interventions that aim to increase tax compliance without changing the underlying economic incentives of taxpayers-are used increasingly by governments because of their potential cost-effectiveness in raising tax revenue. We collect about a thousand treatment effect estimates from over 40 randomized controlled trials, and in a meta-analytical framework show that non-deterrence nudges-interventions pointing to elements of individual tax morale-are on average ineffective in curbing tax evasion, while deterrence nudges-interventions emphasizing traditional determinants of compliance such as audit probabilities and penalty rates-are potent catalysts of compliance. These effects are, however, fairly small in magnitude. Deterrence nudges increase the probability of compliance by only 1.5-2.5 percentage points more than non-deterrence nudges, while the effects are likely to be bound to the short-run, and are somewhat inflated by selective reporting of results.

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“…This helps with procrastination and self-control, while requiring just a minimal effort to over-ride in case one so desires. Independently, Bernheim and Rangel (2009) puts forward a framework for behavioral welfare economics, articulating a set of principles to make welfare judgments, and identifying inconsistencies, as Bernheim and Taubinsky (2018) discusses in their chapter.…”

Section: Welfare and Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Taxation. Another setting in which behavioral factors have a first-order impact is taxation, as the Handbook chapter by Bernheim and Taubinsky (2018) discusses in depth. As we discussed above, Chetty, Looney, and Kroft (2009) provides evidence of significant limited attention to state taxes using a quasi-experiment in a grocery store.…”

Section: Welfare and Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…At these companies, the match rate is so generous (50 percent or 100 percent) that for a variety of models and distributions of parameters, it is broadly optimal to ensure that the behavioral agents do not forgo the benefit of the match. Bernheim, Fradkin, Popov (2015) also discusses the welfare criteria for the different behavioral models, a point discussed in detail in the Handbook chapter by Bernheim and Taubinsky (2018).…”

Section: Welfare and Policymentioning

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Structural Behavioral Economics

DellaVigna¹

2018

Handbook of Behavioral Economics: Applications and Foundations 1

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, and the audience of presentations at the 2016 Behavioral Summer Camp, at the SITE 2016 conference, and at the University of Bonn for their comments and suggestions. I thank Bryan Chu, Avner Shlain, Alex Steiny, and Vasco Villas-Boas for outstanding research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peer-reviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications.

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Behavioral Public Economics

Cited by 86 publications

References 282 publications

Do Human Capital Decisions Respond to the Returns to Education? Evidence from DACA

Do Human Capital Decisions Respond to the Returns to Education? Evidence from DACA

Nudging for Tax Compliance: A Meta-Analysis

Structural Behavioral Economics

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