Richard Cebula
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 710182 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard Cebula |
| NOMBRES | Richard |
| APELLIDO | Cebula |
| FIRMA | CEBULA R |
| AFILIACIONES | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0867-4400 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 75 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 121 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1972 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Differentiated pathways for enhancing green innovation quality in the automotive industry guided by ESG frameworks and energy policies
The automotive manufacturing industry, a key pillar sector, is increasingly guided toward enhancing green innovation quality through low carbon economy principles under ESG frameworks. This study employs a mixed-method approach combining Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) and fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA), utilizing a sample of 301 Chinese automotive manufacturing firms to establish an environmental, social, and governance (E…
Prospect Precocity and University Choice
This study examines the impact of precocity on the university choices made by college basketball prospects. More specifically, it investigates the university and coach-related factors that lead to successful recruiting of one-and-done players in order to shed light on the decision-making process that they utilize in their preparation for a professional basketball career. Probit models utilizing panel data covering the life of the NBA's collective…
Economic Factors That Influence Geographic Differentials in the Percentage of Families Who Own Dogs
This exploratory empirical study seeks to identify factors that influence interstate differentials in the percentage of families that provide a home for one or more dogs. Using PLS estimation for the contiguous 48 states over the period 2008-2016, several conclusions are obtained. These include the following: the percentage of family units with one or more dogs is found to be an increasing function of the percentage of the population that owns it…
The Tiebout-Tullock hypothesis re-examined using tax freedom measures
Seasons, Sharks, and Local Control of the Surfing Commons
This study extends prior research on the relationship between surf break quality and the degree of localism exhibited by surf gangs in at least three ways. First, it adopts Surfline.com's latest data on California's surf breaks in order to re-examine whether or not the level of localism displayed by California's surf gangs is a positive function of the quality and crowdedness of surf breaks. Second, it is the first to explore the relationship bet…
The impact of higher rent levels on private health insurance enrollment
This exploratory empirical study proffers and empirically examines the following two hypotheses: the higher the monthly rent levels being charged for apartments, the lower the percent of the population age 18 years to age 65 that opts to obtain private (whether group or individual) health insurance: and the greater the percentage growth rate of median household income, the greater the growth in the capacity to purchase health insurance. Panel 2SL…
Mixed ownership reform, political connections, and overinvestment
The study discovers that mixed ownership reform aimed at enhancing the performance and resource allocation efficiency of state-owned enterprises may have unintended consequences in China. When the nature of state-owned control remains unchanged, there is a risk of increased overinvestment due to misaligned interests between state-owned equity representatives and companies. This incentive can be mitigated by introducing nonstate shareholders with …
An exploratory study of the impact of tax freedom on geographic living-cost differentials
In the United States, there exist enormous geographic differentials in the cost of living. A sound, basic understanding of factors that influence such geographic living-cost differentials is important to help formulate useful policies to address various contemporary economic and social problems such as public-school funding across counties. In this exploratory study of the effects of tax freedom on geographic living-cost differentials, the follow…
Determinants of poverty in the US state of Virginia
This study provides new insight into factors that influence the poverty rate by testing the following hypothesis: the percentage of the population in poverty is positively related to rent levels. Rent levels constitute an issue effectively overlooked in the poverty determinants literature. The present study estimates a panel data set inclusive of control variables for the US state of Virginia, which provided all the data needed for the analysis. …
State productivity and economic growth
This study uses Bureau of Economic Analysis data on state-level productivity levels and growth rates over the period 1977–2019. We find that states with relatively high productivity tend to experience somewhat lower productivity growth over time, whereas states with relatively lower productivity experience somewhat higher productivity growth over time. We find compelling evidence for significant contributions from education (in the form of a coll…
Proximity to coal mines and mortality rates in the Appalachian Region of the United States
Over the last several years, a body of the scholarly literature has emerged analysing the effects of proximity to coal mines and various human health indicators in the United States. These studies have found evidence of an increased poor health status associated with the production of coal and with close proximity to coal mines. The present study contributes to this literature by analysing the spatial effects of coal production on neighbouring co…
The Crisis in Public Higher Education
Public higher education in the United States is being challenged, as never before, by numerous conditions that need to be addressed if the public college and university systems are to survive and fulfill their responsibilities to the American public. Student enrollment at these institutions has been on a significant downward trend for a full decade. There has been a discernible decline in the esteem with which the American public holds higher edu…
Covid-19-related jock tax revenue losses in US states
The rise of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus led to the postponement, and possible cancellation, of the remainder of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 2019–20 season. Major League Baseball's (MLB) (2020 season) and the National Football League's (NFL) (2020–21) seasons may be cancelled too. This empirical note estimates the loss of jock tax revenue to US states and the District of Columbia as a result of the potential cancellations of the…
Economic and Noneconomic Factors Influencing Geographic Differentials in Homelessness
In this exploratory state-level empirical study for the United States, the authors estimate a pooled time-series/cross-section framework, with control variables for population size and population growth, for the years 2015-2016. Within this context, the least squares estimates lead to the following tentative findings: (1) homelessness is positively associated with the overall cost of living, on the one hand, and the average rent level, on the oth…
Unemployment and voter turnout revisited
Misperceptions about capitalism, government and inequality
The Roles of Economic Freedom and Regulatory Quality in Creating a Favorable Environment for Investment in Energy R & D , Infrastructure, and Capacity
Sustainable investment in energy requires a favorable economic and regulatory environment. A random effects model ( PLS estimations), using a four‐year panel, reveals the growth rate in real per capita GDP for OECD nations as an increasing function of both economic freedom and regulatory quality. These results underscore the critical roles that economic freedom and regulatory quality play, directly and indirectly, in creating an environment condu…
Introduction
Total state in-migration rates and public policy in the United States
This study adopts state-level data to investigate empirically the Tiebout hypothesis (as extended by Tullock) of 'voting with one's feet' for the period referred to in the United States as the 'Great Recession' (2007–09). As compared with previous studies, more recent data are used and estimates are provided for three time periods: the 'Great Recession' (from 1 July 2007 to 30 June 2009), the pre-Great Recession period (1 July 2004 to 30 June 200…
Public Choice and the EPA, 20 Years Later
Nearly 20 years ago, Mixon (1995) found that urban warming is positively related to the probability of an EPA citation for a violation of carbon emissions standards, whereas lobbying effort reduces the probability of such a citation. This study revisits the Mixon (1995) framework by using data on ozone violations. The results indicate that EPA citations for ozone violations are not significantly related to lobbying effort
New and Current Evidence on Determinants of Aggregate Federal Personal Income Tax Evasion in the United States
Using the most current data available, this study seeks to identify any new as well as traditional determinants of personal income tax evasion. A variety of empirical estimates find that income tax rates, the IRS audit rate and IRS penalty interest rates, and the unemployment rate all influence tax evasion. In addition, rarely investigated variables including the tax-free interest rate, the public's job approval rating of the president, and the p…
Revisiting property crime and economic conditions
In a recent issue of this Journal, CitationYearwood and Koinis (2011) endeavor to identify predictive variables of property crime in addition to the unemployment rate. The focus is on reported property crimes rates in the form of property crime in the aggregate, larceny-theft, burglary, robbery, fraud, motor vehicle theft, and embezzlement in North Carolina. The study deals with annual time series data for the period 1977–2007. Unfortunately, the…
Are there rewards for language skills? Evidence from the earnings of registered nurses
The existing empirical evidence on whether U.S. labor markets reward workers for second-language skills is meager and conflicting. Employing data from the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses in 2000 and 2004, this study reexamines the positive bilingual–earnings relationship found in the most current research on this topic. We test the relationship using alternative models that explain the wages earned by nurses. The advantage of this app…
Migration and the Tiebout-Tullock Hypothesis Revisited
This study investigates, using state-level data for the period 2000-2005, the Tiebout hypothesis (as extended by Tullock) of "voting with one's feet." This analysis differs from previous related studies not only in its adoption of more current migration and other data but also in other ways. First, unlike most earlier related studies, it includes a separate measure of the overall cost of living; second, it examines per pupil (rather than per capi…
Does Direct Democracy Increase Voter Turnout? Evidence from the 2004 General Election
This empirical study seeks to broaden the interpretation of the "rational voter model" so as to include the potential effects of "direct democracy" on the voter participation rate. Direct democracy is assumed to take two forms: initiatives and popular referenda. This study tests the hypothesis that direct democracy may not on balance significantly affect voter turnout because, although it may elevate the expected gross benefits of voting by "empo…
Unemployment and voter turnout revisited
Local government policies and migration
Differentials and Indeterminacy in Wage Rate Analysis
Examination of the relationship between net population migration and wage levels in the United States. Number of migrants; Rates of net migration; Possibility for error in the study. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)
The Electoral College and voter participation rates
A note on nonwhite migration, welfare levels, and the political process
A brief empirical note on the Tiebout hypothesis and state income tax policies
Welfare policies and migration of the poor in the United States
Determinants of Student Choice of Undergraduate Major Field
This paper investigates the determinants of student choice of under-graduate major field. It argues that this choice depends on a variety of pecuniary and nonpecuniary factors. After allowing for the recent trends toward Accounting and Business Administration, the empirical results indicate that earnings differentials among fields and differences in the rate of change in earnings among fields are the most important factors in the student’s decisi…
An analysis of migration patterns and local government policy toward public education in the United States
Proximity to coal mines and mortality rates in the Appalachian Region of the United States
Over the last several years, a body of the scholarly literature has emerged analysing the effects of proximity to coal mines and various human health indicators in the United States. These studies have found evidence of an increased poor health status associated with the production of coal and with close proximity to coal mines. The present study contributes to this literature by analysing the spatial effects of coal production on neighbouring co…
In search of optimum ?relative unanimity
An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Government Tax and Auditing Policies on the Size of the Underground Economy
This study empirically examines the impact of federal income tax rates, IRS penalties on unpaid tax liabilities, and audit rates of the Internal Revenue Service on the size of the underground economy in the United States, Recent data generated by Edgar Feige are used to measure the size of the underground economy. Based on ordinary least squares estimates, it is found that the maximum marginal personal income tax rate raises the size of the under…
Voting with One's Feet
Unemployment on Indian reservationsaverages close to 45 percent, andwelfarein its various forms is a more significant source of income for reservation inhabitants thanemployment.Given these circumstances and given the very low levels ofhuman capitalpossessed by the American Indian population, there is reason to expect that higher welfare benefit levels would be attractive to Indianmigrants.Based on 1990 Census data, this study empirically finds t…
Wage-Rate Analysis
Presents a model of interregional wage-rate determination. Assumptions of indeterminacy under the wage theory; Presentation of the short-run and long-run labor supply; Impact of labor mobility constraint on wage determination. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)
Economic Factors That Influence Geographic Differentials in the Percentage of Families Who Own Dogs
This exploratory empirical study seeks to identify factors that influence interstate differentials in the percentage of families that provide a home for one or more dogs. Using PLS estimation for the contiguous 48 states over the period 2008-2016, several conclusions are obtained. These include the following: the percentage of family units with one or more dogs is found to be an increasing function of the percentage of the population that owns it…
Public Choice and the EPA, 20 Years Later
Nearly 20 years ago, Mixon (1995) found that urban warming is positively related to the probability of an EPA citation for a violation of carbon emissions standards, whereas lobbying effort reduces the probability of such a citation. This study revisits the Mixon (1995) framework by using data on ozone violations. The results indicate that EPA citations for ozone violations are not significantly related to lobbying effort
Migration and the Tiebout-Tullock Hypothesis Revisited
This study investigates, using state-level data for the period 2000-2005, the Tiebout hypothesis (as extended by Tullock) of "voting with one's feet." This analysis differs from previous related studies not only in its adoption of more current migration and other data but also in other ways. First, unlike most earlier related studies, it includes a separate measure of the overall cost of living; second, it examines per pupil (rather than per capi…
Enron, Herding, and the Deterrent Effect of Disclosure of Improprieties
One objective of regulatory investigations of possible improprieties by publicly traded corporations and the imposition of sanctions if malfeasance is found is to deter other corporations from engaging in such behavior. Although the magnitude of the deterrent effect is an empirical issue, this paper provides an a priori analysis as to why the deterrent effect will be blunted in many cases, why its strength will not be uniform over time, and why, …
An Alternative Tale of Two Tax Jurisdictions
In a recent issue of this journal, Galles and Sexton (1998) evaluated California's Proposition 13 and Massachusetts' Proposition 2-1/2. Galles and Sexton (1998, p. 123) conclude thatBoth initially succeeded. However, following a brief lag... governments made up lost revenues primarily through increased non-tax fees and charges; within a decade, real per capita revenues and expenditures exceeded their pre-revolt peaks.The present Note offers an al…
A brief note on welfare benefits and human migration
Right-to-Work Laws and Geographic Differences in Living Costs
The existence in a geographic area of right-to-work laws prohibiting the union shop tends to generate a labor-market environment with less union power and thus less labor-market pressure to elevate labor costs. To the extent that right-to-work legislation leads to lower labor costs and hence to lower unit production costs, there is a tendency for the overall cost of living in the area to be lower. Using ordinary least squares, this paper examines…
Living costs, the Tiebout hypothesis, and welfare policy
The Tiebout-Tullock hypothesis re-examined using tax freedom measures
The Crisis in Public Higher Education
Public higher education in the United States is being challenged, as never before, by numerous conditions that need to be addressed if the public college and university systems are to survive and fulfill their responsibilities to the American public. Student enrollment at these institutions has been on a significant downward trend for a full decade. There has been a discernible decline in the esteem with which the American public holds higher edu…
The Roles of Economic Freedom and Regulatory Quality in Creating a Favorable Environment for Investment in Energy R & D , Infrastructure, and Capacity
Sustainable investment in energy requires a favorable economic and regulatory environment. A random effects model ( PLS estimations), using a four‐year panel, reveals the growth rate in real per capita GDP for OECD nations as an increasing function of both economic freedom and regulatory quality. These results underscore the critical roles that economic freedom and regulatory quality play, directly and indirectly, in creating an environment condu…
Wage-Rate Analysis
Presents a model of interregional wage-rate determination. Assumptions of indeterminacy under the wage theory; Presentation of the short-run and long-run labor supply; Impact of labor mobility constraint on wage determination. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)
The City as a Source of Regional Economic Disparity in Latin America
In his article in the current issue of this Review, Walter attempts to demonstrate that Latin America is not characterized by a dualistic econ? omy. In particular, he argues that in Latin America the city's growth has been achieved at the expense of the rural economy. Walter views the city, in the interests of its own enrichment, as sucking land, labor, and capital from the rural areas while not supplying the rural areas with ade? quate amounts o…
Differentials and Indeterminacy in Wage Rate Analysis
Examination of the relationship between net population migration and wage levels in the United States. Number of migrants; Rates of net migration; Possibility for error in the study. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)
Local government policies and migration
Potential theft as indirect taxation
Local government policies and migration
A note on nonwhite migration, welfare levels, and the political process
Nonwhite migration, welfare, and politics—A reply
An analysis of migration patterns and local government policy toward public education in the United States
Nonwhite migration, welfare, and politics
Property Taxation and Human Migration
Various factors explain human migration as it relates to the growth of cities. Some are closely related to the location of modem industry: people follow jobs or at least are attracted by better economic opportunities. Cities also attract population by a quality of life otherwise unavailable. Some move to particular cities for personal reasons, etc. But for the United States, at least, and for White migrants, two factors are also important in affe…
Living costs, the Tiebout hypothesis, and welfare policy
The Determinants of Human Migration
A systematic analytical and empirical approach to understanding the determinants of geographic mobility in the United States is developed herein.This book seeks to afford new insight into the migration process, and, by so doing, endeavors to be not only of interest but also of great pragmatic value to both researchers and policy makers.The book consists of three parts.The first part is primarily aimed at developing a rigorous analytical model of …
Causal Factors in the Net Migration Flow to Metropolitan Areas of the United States, 1960-70
The Electoral College and voter participation rates
Geographic Mobility and the Cost of Living
A note on the determinants of AFDC policies
Voting with one's feet
The ?crowding out? effect of federal government outlay decisions
Money illusion” and migration decisions
This paper argues that migrant behaviour should be, in the absence of 'money illusion', sensitive to geographic living-cost differentials. The empirical findings of this paper strongly imply that, in the United States and Canada, the cost of living is an important determinant of migration patterns and that omission of the living-cost variable from the migration regression constitutes a specification error." The study is based on net migration dat…
Proposition 4, Tax Reduction Mirage
A bstract . What would the true government expenditure and tax‐burden impacts of California's Proposition 4 likely be if it (or its equivalent) were enacted in all states? What happened to actual state plus local government expenditures per capita over the period FY 1970 ‐ FY 1976 is examined. Next, we examine what would have happened to such expenditures (per capita) if Proposition 4 had been in effect over the same period. Comparing the results…
Real Earnings and Human Migration in the United States
The present article offers an alternative [to Rabianski's] empirical analysis of the migration impact of living cost differentials and deals with net (as opposed to gross) [U.S.] migration to some 25 (as opposed to just 11) SMSAs over the 1960-70 rather than the 1955-60 time period. The results...indicate that...living cost differentials do significantly affect geographic mobility, i.e., improve the regression results
Real Earnings and Human Migration in the United States
This study seeks to fill a void in the empirical migration literature, namely, to allow expressly for geographic living-cost differentials. The study focuses upon net migration to SMSAs over the period 1960-1970. The analysis involves two alternative treatments of living costs, one being to deflate nominal income and the other being to express those living-cost levels as a separate variable. Both approaches work. Migrants are found to be attracte…
The Electoral College and voter participation rates
A Note on the Impact of Right-to-Work Laws on the Cost of Living in the United States
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