D Epple… - 1998 - nber.org
Research over the past several years has led to development of models characterizing
equilibrium in a system of local jurisdictions. An important insight from these models is that
plausible single-crossing assumptions about preferences generate strong predictions ...
GE Auten, H Sieg… - The American Economic Review, 2002 - JSTOR
As has often been noted, charitable organizations play an important role in American
society, and one of their major sources of revenue is private donations. Given this
quantitative importance, the continuing interest in tax reform, and the ready availability of ...
H Sieg, VK Smith, HS Banzhaf… - International Economic …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Sieg, H., Smith, VK, Banzhaf, HS and Walsh, R.(2004), ESTIMATING THE GENERAL
EQUILIBRIUM BENEFITS OF LARGE CHANGES IN SPATIALLY DELINEATED PUBLIC
GOODS. International Economic Review, 45: 1047–1077. doi: 10.1111/j. 0020-6598.2004. ...
D Epple, T Romer… - Econometrica, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
2. Abstract The goal of this paper is to provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of
majority rule and Tiebout sorting within a system of local jurisdictions. The idea behind the
estimation procedure is to investigate whether observed levels of public expenditures ...
D Epple, R Romano… - Econometrica, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
We present an equilibrium model of the market for higher education. Our model
simultaneously predicts student selection into institutions of higher education, financial aid,
educational expenditures, and educational outcomes. We show that the model gives rise ...
D Epple, R Romano… - Journal of Applied …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
This paper develops a model in which colleges seek to maximize the quality of the
educational experience provided to their students. We deduce predictions about the
hierarchy of schools that emerges in equilibrium, the allocation of students by income and ...
H Sieg, VK Smith, HS Banzhaf… - Journal of Urban Economics, 2002 - Elsevier
In this study, we discuss how to construct interjurisdictional housing price indexes that are
consistent with locational equilibrium theory. In theoretical models, housing is assumed to
be homogeneous, which provides problems in empirical analysis. We provide conditions ...
H Sieg - 1999 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Games with asymmetric information play a prominent role in the theoretical
literature of malpractice disputes. The common modeling framework in many papers is a
game in extensive form which consists of two stages. In the first stage, one agent makes a ...
S Calabrese, D Epple, T Romer… - Journal of Public Economics, 2006 - Elsevier
Few empirical strategies have been developed that investigate public provision under
majority rule while taking explicit account of the constraints implied by mobility of
households. The goal of this paper is to improve our understanding of voting in local ...
V Kerry Smith, H Sieg, H Spencer Banzhaf… - Journal of …, 2004 - Elsevier
This research demonstrates how locational equilibrium models can be used for benefit
measurement with the detail required to match EPA's benefit analysis for the first Prospective
Analysis. Using the projected changes in ozone concentrations for 2000 and 2010 ...
P Arcidiacono, H Sieg… - International Economic …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Arcidiacono, P., Sieg, H. and Sloan, F.(2007), LIVING RATIONALLY UNDER THE
VOLCANO? AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF HEAVY DRINKING AND SMOKING.
International Economic Review, 48: 37–65. doi: 10.1111/j. 1468-2354.2007. 00417. x
H Sieg, VK Smith, HS Banzhaf… - 2000 - nber.org
This paper reports the first comprehensive approach for measuring the general equilibrium
willingness to pay for large changes in air quality. It is based on a well defined locational
equilibrium model. The approach allows estimation of households' indirect utility function ...
M Coppejans, D Gilleskie, H Sieg… - 2006 - nber.org
The goal of this paper is to analyze consumer demand in markets with large price
uncertainty. We develop a demand model for goods that are subject to habit formation. We
show that consumption plans of forward looking individuals depend not only on ...
D Epple, R Romano… - The American Economic Review, 2002 - JSTOR
Achieving diversity in the racial and ethnic makeup of the student body is one of the
objectives that a college pursues in making decisions about admission and financial
aid.'There has been a tremendous amount of debate about policies that colleges should ...
D Epple, R Romano… - 2003 - nber.org
The paper examines the practice of affirmative action and consequences of its proscription
on the admission and tuition policies of institutions of higher education in a general
equilibrium. Colleges are differentiated ex ante by endowments and compete for students ...
D Epple, B Gordon… - Journal of regional science, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT We consider the problem of integrating spatial amenities into locational
equilibrium models with multiple jurisdictions. We provide sufficient conditions under which
models that assume a single housing price in each community continue to apply in the ...
RA Miller… - Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 1997 - JSTOR
This article reviews the methodological issues associated with estimating and testing
competitive markets with panel data and applies it to an important new arena, international
economics. We investigate differences in housing consumption and male labor supply ...
D Epple, T Romer… - 1999 - nber.org
The paper provides a comprehensive empirical analysis of majority rule and Tiebout sorting
within a system of local jurisdictions. The idea behind the estimation procedure is to
investigate whether observed levels of public expenditures satisfy necessary conditions ...
D Epple, R Romano… - Journal of Public Economic …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the practice of affirmative action and consequences of its proscription on the
admission and tuition policies of institutions of higher education in a general equilibrium
framework. Colleges are differentiated ex ante by endowments and compete for students ...
P Arcidiacono, H Sieg… - 2001 - nber.org
This study investigates whether models of forward-looking behavior explain the observed
patterns of heavy drinking and smoking of men in late middle age in the Health and
Retirement Study better than myopic models. We develop and estimate a sequence of ...
H Sieg - International Economic Review, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
2. Abstract The purpose of the article is to study the incentive and distributional
consequences of income taxation. The article analyzes tax changes in a dynamic setting.
The framework is estimated under a set of different identifying assumptions using ...
D Epple, R Romano, S Sarpça… - The Economic Journal, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Profiling in college admissions arises when applicant attributes are given weight because
they are correlated with unobservable student characteristics that the college values. The
article models the admission process of a single college as a bargaining game between ...
D Epple, B Gordon… - The American Economic Review, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: Dating to the classic works of Alonso, Mills, and Muth, the production function for
housing has played a central role in urban economics and local public finance. This paper
provides a new flexible approach for estimating the housing production function which ...
D Epple, B Gordon… - 2009 - repository.cmu.edu
Dating to the classic works of Alonso, Mills, and Muth, the production function for housing
has played a central role in urban economics and local public finance. This paper provides a
new flexible approach for estimating the housing production function which treats housing ...
VK Smith, H Sieg, HS Banzhaf… - 2002 - rff.org
Abstract Environmental policy analyses increasingly require the evaluation of benefits from
large changes in spatially differentiated public goods. Such changes are likely to induce
general equilibrium effects through changes in household expenditures and local ...
D Epple, M Peress… - 2008 - repository.cmu.edu
We develop a new model of household sorting in a system of residential neighborhoods. We
show that this model is partially identified without imposing parametric restrictions on the
distribution of unobserved tastes for neighborhood quality and the shape of the indirect ...
H Sieg, VK Smith, HS Banzhaf… - American journal of …, 1999 - ajae.oxfordjournals.org
Revealed preference models used in nonmarket valuation have, at times, overlooked
potentially important implications of the assumption of optimizing behavior in measuring
individuals' values for amenities. Epple and Sieg (1999a) have developed a new ...
D Epple… - 2002 - econ.yale.edu
Abstract Research over the past several years has led to development of models
characterizing equilibrium in a system of local jurisdictions. More recently, there have been a
number of studies which have tried to estimate these models. The evidence suggests that ...
D Epple, M Peress… - Unpublished manuscript, 2005 - research.mpls.frb.fed.us
Abstract Research over the past several years has led to development of models
characterizing equilibrium in a system of local jurisdictions. More recently, there have been a
number of studies which have estimated these models. One potential drawback of the ...
D Epple, B Gordon… - 2006 - secure.hosting.vt.edu
Abstract If prices differ for the same good, the value of output is not necessarily a good
measure of the quantity of output. Estimation of production functions is challenging if
quantities and prices of output are not separately observed by the econometrician. This ...
P Arcidiacono, H Sieg… - International Economic …, 2006 - people.virginia.edu
Abstract This paper analyzes heavy drinking and smoking using a sample of older
individuals from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Older individuals start to
experience negative health shocks which are, at least partially, due to past smoking and ...
B Davis, J Engberg, DN Epple, H Sieg… - 2010 - nber.org
This paper examines the impact of a gifted program on retention in an urban school district
using a regression discontinuity design. Gifted programs often employ IQ thresholds for
admission, with those above the threshold being admitted. One common problem with the ...
H Sieg, V Smith, H Banzhaf… - 2003 - fmwww.bc.edu
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive approach for measuring
the economic gains to households from air quality improvements based on a well defined
locational equilibrium model. The approach taken in this paper allows us to estimate the ...
J Engberg, D Epple, J Imbrogno, H Sieg… - 2010 - repository.cmu.edu
The purpose of this paper is to provide a new framework for evaluating education programs
that ration excess demand by admission lotteries when selective attrition cannot be ignored.
Differential attrition arises in these models because students that lose the lottery are more ...
D Epple, R Romano… - 2009 - repository.cmu.edu
In this paper we study the life cycle locational choices of heterogeneous households and
characterize the dynamics of metropolitan areas. We develop an overlapping generations
model for households in of a system of multiple jurisdictions. At each point of time ...
M Coppejans… - 2002 - nber.org
Consumption of addictive goods is subject to habit formation. Forward-looking individuals
must, therefore, be concerned about future prices when making current consumption
decisions. We study prices for tobacco products based on a unique data set provided by ...
G Auten, H Sieg… - 1999 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Recent econometric studies of the effect of taxes on charitable giving have called
into question the behavioral parameters derived from cross-section models. In particular,
these studies imply that taxes affect contributions primarily by influencing their timing, not ...
D Epple, M Peress… - American Economic Journal: …, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: We develop a new model of household sorting in a system of residential
neighborhoods. We show that this model is partially identified without imposing parametric
restrictions on the distribution of unobserved tastes for neighborhood quality and the ...
M Coppejans… - Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2005 - ASA
In this article we consider the problem of estimating average derivatives and differences
using kernel estimators. Our analysis focuses on developing new methods that are
appropriate in the context of bounded and discrete regressors and do not require higher- ...
[CITATION] Peer Effects, Financial Aid, and Selection of Students into Colleges and Universities
D Epple, R Romano… - Journal of Applied Economics, 2002
[CITATION] Diversity, Profiling, and Affirmative Action in Higher Education
D Epple, R Romano… - 2005 - Mimeo, Carnegie Mellon University
D Epple, R Romano… - Journal of Public Economics, 2011 - Elsevier
We study the intergenerational conflict over the provision of public education. This conflict
arises because older households without children have weaker incentives to support the
provision of high quality educational services in a community than younger households ...
G Auten, H Sieg… - 2000 - econ.duke.edu
Abstract This study develops and implements a new empirical framework for analyzing how
persistent and transitory changes in incomes and prices affect charitable donations. In
contrast to previous empirical research, our estimator treats both transitory and persistent ...
[CITATION] Ozone improvement and household adjustments: revisiting EPA's prospective analysis
V Smith, H Sieg, HS Banzhaf… - 2002 - working paper, April
H Sieg… - Tepper School of Business, 2009 - repository.cmu.edu
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the role that private benefits play in explaining
charitable donations to large cultural organizations. We use a multiple discrete choice model
with differentiated products, and estimate the model using a unique data set of donor lists ...
[CITATION] Estimating the General Equilibrium Benefits of Large Policy Changes: The Clean Air Act Revisited''http://papers. nber. org/papers
H Sieg, VK Smith, HS Banzhaf… - W7744
D Epple, B Gordon… - 2006 - www-leland.stanford.edu
Abstract There exists significant price dispersion in many industries. As a consequence the
value of output is not necessarily a good measure of the quantity of output. Estimation of
production functions for these types of goods is thus challenging since quantities and ...
H Sieg, VK Smith, S Banzhaf… - 2000 - nber.org
This paper analyses how the properties of locational equilibrium models can be used to
evaluate approaches for constructing price indexes for heterogeneous houses. Housing
markets play a key role in locational equilibrium models. Prices for houses determine that ...
H Sieg… - 2010 - princeton.edu
Abstract: This paper provides an empirical analysis of the role that private benefits play in
explaining charitable donations to large cultural and environmental organizations. We
develop a multiple discrete choice model with differentiated products. We estimate the ...
J Brinkman, D Coen-Pirani… - 2010 - erwan.marginalq.com
Abstract We develop a new dynamic general equilibrium model of firm location choice that
can explain the observed sorting of firms by productivity and is consistent with the observed
entry, exit, and relocation decisions of firms within an urban economy. We discuss ...
J Engberg, D Epple, J Imbrogno, H Sieg… - 2010 - www.ncspe.org
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to estimate sharp bounds on treatment effects of
education programs that ration excess demand by admission lotteries when selective
attrition cannot be ignored. Differential attrition arises in these models because students ...
D Epple, H Sieg… - GSIA Working Papers, 2004 - ideas.repec.org
Research over the past several years has led to development of models characterizing
equilibrium in a system of local jurisdictions. More recently, there have been a number of
studies which have tried to estimate these models. The evidence suggests that simple ...
DS Brown… - 2003 - ideas.repec.org
Dynamic discrete choice models are a well established and widely used methodology to
study behavior of older individuals. A key aspect of the analysis is to characterize life
expectancy and how it is affected by behavioral choices. Researchers, therefore, need to ...
D Epple, R Romano… - 2008 - bus.indiana.edu
Abstract In this paper we study the life cycle locational choices of heterogeneous
households and characterize the dynamics of metropolitan areas. We develop an
overlapping generations model for households in of a system of multiple jurisdictions. At ...
[CITATION] Locational Equilibrium and Competition among Jurisdictions: Policy Analysis: Valuing Large Environmental Improvements Lecture Notes
H Sieg - 2009
D Epple, J Geyer… - 2011 - andrew.cmu.edu
Abstract The goal of this paper is to study the impact of public housing policies on the
mobility of low income households in a large urban area. We focus on communities owned
and managed by the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh. Although participation ...
J Brinkman, D Coen-Pirani… - 2011 - cemfi.net
Abstract We develop a new dynamic general equilibrium model to explain firm entry, exit,
and relocation decisions in an urban economy with multiple locations. We characterize the
stationary distribution of firms that arises in equilibrium. The parameters of the model can ...
J Engberg, D Epple, J Imbrogno, H Sieg… - 2008 - typo.sfbtr15.de
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to study identification and estimation of causal effects
when program participation is partially determined by lottery outcomes. This research design
arises in many applications in education when access to oversubscribed programs is ...
[CITATION] Identification and Semiparametric Estimation of Equilibrium Models of Local
D Epple, M Peress…
D Epple, B Gordon… - 2006 Meeting Papers, 2006 - ideas.repec.org
There exists significant dispersion in output prices between firms in many industries. As a
consequence the value of output is not necessarily a good measure of the quantity of output.
Estimation of production functions for these types of goods is thus challenging if quantities ...
H Sieg - 2012 - sas.upenn.edu
• Tiebout (1956) conjectured that competition among publicly elected governments for
mobile households may yield an efficient provision of local public goods. Economic mobility
coupled with the choice provided by a diverse set of local communities makes the analysis ...
S Holger - ukpmc.ac.uk
In this paper, we consider the problem of estimating average derivatives and differences
using kernel estimators. We derive a new nonparametric estimator which we refer to as
average difference estimator. We show that this estimator is consistent and root-N ...
J Engberg, D Epple, B Gill, H Sieg, G Zamarro… - sree.org
Closing schools is one of the most controversial decisions a district can make. Nevertheless,
urban districts across the nation are closing schools due to declining enrollments, and
federal policy is promoting school closure as an important strategy to deal with chronically ...
H Sieg… - … Society 2004 North American Winter Meetings, 2004 - ideas.repec.org
Research over the past several years has led to development of models characterizing
equilibrium in a system of local jurisdictions. More recently, there have been a number of
studies which have tried to estimate these models. The evidence suggests that simple ...
S Calabrese, D Epple, T Romer… - 2004 - ssc.upenn.edu
Abstract Few empirical strategies have been developed that investigate public provision
under majority rule while taking explicit account of the constraints implied by mobility of
households. Previous empirical work by Epple, Romer, and Sieg (2001) has focused on ...
S Banzhaf, H Sieg, VK Smith… - … Society World Congress …, 2000 - econpapers.repec.org
... Please update your bookmarks. Measuring the Impact of Air Quality on Housing Markets and
Residential Choices in Southern California. Spencer Banzhaf (), Holger Sieg, V. Kerry Smith
and Randall Phillip Walsh () Additional contact information Holger Sieg: Duke University. ...
A Yaron, A Pricing, A Rangel, B McCallum… - …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
THE 2008 ECONOMETRIC SOCIETY AUSTRALASIAN MEETING will be held in on 9–11
July, 2008 in Wellington, New Zealand and serves as a symposium to mark the life and work
of AWH Phillips. The New Zealand Association of Economists (NZAE) and the ...
D Epple, J Geyer… - 2010 - sas.upenn.edu
Abstract We develop a model for the market of public housing that captures excess demand
for public housing and rationing in equilibrium. We show that a unique equilibrium with
rationing exists and characterize its properties. We then develop a maximum likelihood ...
B Davis, J Engberg, D Epple, H Sieg… - 2011 - cesifo-group.de
Abstract This paper examines the impact of a gifted program on retention in an urban school
district using a regression discontinuity design. Gifted programs often employ IQ thresholds
for admission, with those above the threshold being admitted. One common problem with ...
J Brinkman, D Coen-Pirani… - 2011 - stanford.edu
Abstract We develop a new dynamic general equilibrium model to explain firm entry, exit,
and relocation decisions in an urban economy with multiple locations. We characterize the
stationary distribution of firms that arises in equilibrium. The parameters of the model can ...
[CITATION] Locational Equilibrium and Competition among Jurisdictions: Theory and Computational Analysis Lecture Notes
D Epple… - 2009
MM Mark Coppejans… - Computing in Economics and …, 2000 - ideas.repec.org
The purpose of this paper is to explore and evaluate smooth approximation methods for
value functions. These approximation methods are increasingly important in numerical
dynamic programming since they allow researchers to solve models with a multitude of ...
H Sieg… - 2007 - www-leland.stanford.edu
Abstract This paper investigates different motives for philanthropic behavior: local public
good provision, altruism, warm glow, and tangible private benefits. We develop a new
framework for estimating multiple discrete choice models to quantify the importance of ...
D Epple, R Romano… - 2007 - ssc.wisc.edu
Abstract In this paper we develop an overlapping generation model to study the life cycle
choices of heterogeneous households and characterize the dynamics of metropolitan
communities. The model focuses on household sorting and local public good provision in ...
J Brinkman, D Coen-Pirani… - 2010 - princeton.edu
Abstract We develop a new dynamic general equilibrium model of firm location choice that
can explain the observed sorting of firms by productivity and is consistent with the observed
entry, exit, and relocation decisions of firms within an urban economy. We discuss ...
[CITATION] Gambling with Pennsylvania's future: A case study on Pennsylvania's economic landscape after legalizing slot machines
J Kocerka, M Lementowski, E Shiu… - 2005 - Retrieved on December
VK Smith, H Sieg, HS Banzhaf… - GSIA Working Papers - ideas.repec.org
This paper demonstrates how a new framework, using the necessary conditions for a
locational equilibrium, offers the potential to transform this policy landscape. We
demonstrate in this paper that the framework can be used as part of a benefit analysis of ...
[CITATION] A Semi-Nonparametric Approach to Estimating Production Functions of Non-Tradeable Goods
D Epple, B Gordon… - 2005
H Sieg - … zur Wirtschaftsforschung/Quarterly Journal of Economic …, 1999 - ideas.repec.org
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…, F Holger Sieg - Computing in Economics and …, 2001 - econpapers.repec.org
Most rational addiction models focus on how drinking and smoking are made when young.
Yet, the costs of drinking and smoking generally come later in life. We focus on the decisions
of the elderly where individuals know their propensity for addiction but are uncertain about ...
D Epple, R Romano… - 2006 - ifo.de
Abstract We examine the practice of affirmative action and consequences of its proscription
on the admission and tuition policies of institutions of higher education in a general
equilibrium framework. Colleges are differentiated ex ante by endowments and compete ...
[CITATION] A Nonparametric Test of Nonlinear Pricing in Labor Markets
M Coppejans… - 2001
H Sieg - 2012 - sas.upenn.edu
• The most prominent approach was introduced by Oates (1969), who studied whether
public spending and taxation were capitalized into land values.(Hedonic Regressions)•
Closely related to this literature is one focused on estimation of demand functions for local ...
M Coppejans… - 2000 - public.econ.duke.edu
Abstract In this paper, we derive a nonparametric test for nonlinear pricing. Our application
focuses on labor markets in which nonlinear pricing arises naturally in a contractual
framework. To implement our testing procedure we build on the recent literature on ...
[CITATION] Locational Equilibrium and Competition among Jurisdictions: Theory Based Estimation and Empirical Results Lecture Notes
D Epple… - 2009
D Epple, R Romano, S Sarpça… - The Economic Journal, 2006 - res.org.uk
Profiling in college admissions arises when applicant attributes are given weight because
they are correlated with unobservable student characteristics that the college values. The
article models the admission process of a single college as a bargaining game between ...
[CITATION] Identification and Semiparametric Estimation of Discrete-Continuous Choice Models with Vertical Product Differentiation
D Epple, M Peress…
M Coppejans… - 2000 - fmwww.bc.edu
The purpose of this paper is to study the consumption pattern of potentially addictive
substances in a dynamic model of rational addiction under uncertainty. Stigler and Becker
(1977) and Becker and Murphy (1988) have forcefully argued that addiction can be ...
B Davis, J Engberg, DN Epple, H Sieg… - 2010 - rand.org
This paper examines the impact of a gifted program on retention in an urban school district
using a regression discontinuity design. Gifted programs often employ IQ thresholds for
admission, with those above the threshold being admitted. One common problem with the ...
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