Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Social and Behavioral Sciences Commons™
Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Three Essays On The High-Speed Rail Network In China, Shiyu Cheng
Three Essays On The High-Speed Rail Network In China, Shiyu Cheng
Theses and Dissertations--Economics
My dissertation consists of three essays that study the economic consequences of China’s high-speed rail (HSR) expansion.
In the first essay, I use the college admission cutoff scores to reveal students’ college preferences under the enrollment quota. By exploiting the quasi-experimental variation in whether or not college cities are connected by the HSR network, I document a two-point increase in the cutoff scores following a HSR station opening in the college city using difference-in-difference (DD) approach. Colleges in the megacities experience a larger increase in cutoff scores after the station opening. These findings suggest that the HSR network stimulates “brain …
Three Essays In Regional Taxation, Kenneth Tester
Three Essays In Regional Taxation, Kenneth Tester
Theses and Dissertations--Economics
This dissertation looks at the role that geographically limited taxation and the behavioral response of economic agents to different forms of regional taxation. While geographic taxation is typically thought to be confined to state and local taxes, federal tax policy can also create designated areas that receive preferential tax treatment. In this dissertation, both types of regional taxation are examined and are unified under common themes such as tax mobility and the definition of the tax base.
In chapter 2, I examine the important effect of how the location of high income earners employment is influenced by taxes in the …