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Balancing Federalism : The Impact of Decentralizing School Accountability
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Saenz-Armstrong, Patricia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
change in policy allows estimation of the impact of altered federalism. By looking at how states reacted to their enhanced … with significantly lower student achievement growth. As a result, this readjustment of federalism to decision making by … lower levels appeared to lower national achievement. The snapshot of federalism impacts here is a lower bound on the effects …
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What Drives Tax Policy? Political, Institutional and Economic Determinants of State Tax Policy
Robinson, Sarah; Tazhitdinova, Alisa - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We collect detailed data on U.S. state personal income, corporate, sales, cigarette, gasoline, and alcohol taxes over the past 70 years to shed light on the determinants of state tax policies. We provide a comprehensive summary of how tax policy has changed over time, within and across states....
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How do local governments decide on public policy in fiscal federalism? Tax vs. expenditure optimization
Koethenbuerger, Marko - In: Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 11, pp. 1516-1522
, thereby, enable a more precise characterization of local government behavior in fiscal federalism. …
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Special Interest Groups and the Allocation of Public Funds
Singhal, Monica - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
A long-standing puzzle in the fiscal federalism literature is the empirical non-equivalence in government spending from …
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Elected Versus Appointed Policymakers: Evidence from City Treasurers
Whalley, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper investigates whether methods of public official selection affect policymaking in cities. I draw on the unique characteristics of California's city referendum process to identify the causal effect of city treasurers' method of selection on their cities' debt management policies. I...
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The optimal distribution rule of federal funds to states in India : a suggested methodology
Raychaudhuri, Ajitava; Roy, Poulomi - In: South Asian journal of macroeconomics and public finance 10 (2021) 2, pp. 193-225
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The effects of federal regulations on corruption in US States
Dincer, Oguzhan; Gunalp, Burak - In: European journal of political economy 65 (2020), pp. 1-11
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Exploring the influence of federal welfare expenditures on state-level new economy development performance : drawing from the diffusion of innovation theory
Shin, Geiguen; Hall, Jeremy Lucas - In: Economic development quarterly : the journal of … 32 (2018) 3, pp. 242-256
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Patchwork policies, spillovers, and the search for oil and gas
Lewis, Eric - In: American economic journal : a journal of the American … 11 (2019) 1, pp. 380-405
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Strength in diversity? : fiscal federalism among the fifty US states
Garcia-Milà, Teresa; McGuire, Therese J.; Oates, Wallace E. - In: International tax and public finance 25 (2018) 4, pp. 1071-1091
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