Justin G Marion

About

Justin G Marion is a Professor in the Economics Department within the Social Sciences Division. His research interests include public economics and empirical industrial organization. The Economics Department is part of the learning and research community within the Social Sciences Division, and Marion's work contributes to this academic environment. His expertise and research focus are centered on understanding economic phenomena through empirical methods, particularly in the areas of public economics and industrial organization.

Research topics

• Business
• Marketing
• Political Science
• Finance
• Environmental health
• Environmental protection
• Advertising
• Operations management
• Medicine
• Environmental chemistry

Selected publications

• Fuel tax incidence and supply conditions

  Journal of Public Economics · 2011-04-19 · 170 citations

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• Skipping class in college and exam performance: Evidence from a regression discontinuity classroom experiment

  Economics of Education Review · 2009-09-24 · 118 citations

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• Does Tax-Collection Invariance Hold? Evasion and the Pass-Through of State Diesel Taxes

  American Economic Journal Economic Policy · 2016-04-28 · 106 citations

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  In simple models, the incidence of a tax is independent of the identity of the remitting party. We illustrate that this prediction fails to hold if opportunities for evasion differ across economic agents. Second, we estimate how the incidence of state diesel taxes varies with the point of collection, where the remitting party varies across states and over time. Moving tax collection upstream from retailers substantially raises the pass-through of diesel taxes to consumers. Furthermore, tax reven…

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• How Costly Is Affirmative Action? Government Contracting and California's Proposition 209

  The Review of Economics and Statistics · 2009-07-23 · 82 citations

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  This paper investigates the effect of disadvantaged business enterprise subcontractor goals on the winning bids for highway construction contracts using California's Proposition 209, which prohibited the consideration of race or gender in awarding state-funded contracts. After Proposition 209, prices on state-funded contracts fell by 5.6% relative to federally funded projects, for which preferences still applied. Most of the price decline after Proposition 209 resulted from the mix of subcontrac…

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• Affirmative action programs and business ownership among minorities and women

  Small Business Economics · 2010-12-01 · 39 citations

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  Affirmative action programs are commonly used as a means to level the playing field for minority- and women-owned firms in public procurement markets, and therefore may be a positive factor in business entry and survival. To the extent that affirmative action programs also apply to traditional labor markets, however, they may alter the opportunity cost of starting a business. We utilize the elimination of affirmative action in California and Washington States through voter initiatives to identif…

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Frequent coauthors

• Erich Muehlegger

  University of California, Davis

  11 shared

• Joel Slemrod

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  7 shared

• Ricard Gil

  EAE Business School

  6 shared

• Wojciech Kopczuk

  Columbia University

  5 shared

• Nathaniel Brandt Baum-Snow

  University of Toronto

  2 shared

• Jesse M. Cunha

  Naval Postgraduate School

  1 shared

• Jeremy West

  University of California, Santa Cruz

  1 shared

• Robert W. Fairlie

  1 shared

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