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Community Choice and Local Public Services : A Discrete Choice Approach

Nechyba, Thomas J. - 1997

This paper uses a discrete choice approach to estimate the impact of local fiscal and other variables on individual community choices. It employs a combination of a unique micro data set composed of ninety percent of all homeowners in six school districts in Camden County, New Jersey and...

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The Effects of Fiscal Decentralization on Publicly Provided Services and Labor Markets

Bianchi, Nicola; Giorcelli, Michela; Martino, Enrica Maria - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper studies how fiscal decentralization affects local services. It explores a 1993 reform that increased the … identifica- tion leverages cross-municipal variation in the degree of decentralization that stems from differences in the average … age of buildings caused by bombings during WWII. Decentralization reduced local spending but expanded municipal services …

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Crowdsourcing City Government : Using Tournaments to Improve Inspection Accuracy

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2016

Can open tournaments improve the quality of city services? The proliferation of big data makes it possible to use predictive analytics to better target services like hygiene inspections, but city governments rarely have the in-house talent needed for developing prediction algorithms. Cities...

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Efficient Local Government Service Provision : The Role of Privatization and Public Sector Unions

Jerch, Rhiannon - 2016

Local governments spend roughly $1.6 trillion per year to provide a variety of public services ranging from police and fire protection to public schools and public transit. However, we know little about public sector's productivity in delivering key services. To understand the productivity both...

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Regional Economic Development and Mexican Out-Migration

Unger, Kurt - 2005

in Mexico due to migration. The principal hypothesis of this study is that remittances, knowledge and experience acquired by migrants during their migratory cycle, can be translated into larger economic growth in the out migration municipalities. This result presupposes that Government could...

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The Importance of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer

Maggio, Marco Di - 2016

We assess the extent to which unemployment insurance (UI) serves as an automatic stabilizer to mitigate the economy's sensitivity to shocks. Using a local labor market design based on heterogeneity in local benefit generosity, we estimate that a one standard deviation increase in generosity...

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Estimating Local Fiscal Multipliers

Suárez Serrato, Juan Carlos - 2016

We propose a new source of cross-sectional variation that may identify causal impacts of government spending on the economy. We use the fact that a large number of federal spending programs depend on local population levels. Every ten years, the Census provides a count of local populations....

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Studies in state and local public finance

Rosen, Harvey S. (ed.) - 1986

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Fiscal Policies in Open Cities with Firms and Households

Haughwout, Andrew - 2000

With the renewed interest in cities as economic centers comes a need to understand how local public services and local taxes are likely to affect city economic performance. This paper provides an equilibrium model of an open city economy with mobile firms and resident workers. Given household...

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The Incentive Effects of Property Taxes on Local Governments

Glaeser, Edward L. - 1995

This paper applies the ideas of Brennan and Buchanan (1977, 1978, 1980) to local property taxes. When local governments maximize their revenues, property taxes provide incentives for adequate amenity provision. Local amenity provision determines property values which then determine local tax...

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