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Education, Welfare, and the "New" Federalism : State Budgeting in a Federalist Public Economy

Craig, Steven G.; Inman, Robert P. - 2021

President Reagan's proposal for a "New Federalism" raises a fundamental challenge to our current structure of Federal …-state-local fiscal relations.This research examInes the lIkely consequences of the New Federalism for fiscal allocations by state … and more on tax relief and the numerous other state activities. Second, the New Federalism, as it relaxes the spending …

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The Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Resources on Economic Outcomes : Evidence from the United States 1936-2015

Clay, Karen - 2018

This paper draws on a new state-level panel dataset and a model of domestic Dutch disease to examine the short-run and long-run effects of oil & natural gas, coal, and agricultural land endowments on state economies during 1936-2015. Using a flexible shift-share estimation approach, where the...

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Legislative Representation, Bargaining Power, and the Distribution of Federal Funds : Evidence from the U.S. Senate

Knight, Brian G. - 2021

While representation in the U.S. House is based upon state population, each state has an equal number (two) of U.S. Senators. Thus, relative to the state delegations in the U.S. House, small population states are provided disproportionate bargaining power in the U.S. Senate. This paper provides...

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Federal Assistance and Local Services in the United States : the Evolution of a New Federalist Fiscal Order

Inman, Robert P. - 2021

The federalist fiscal structure of the United States has been evolving steadily towards the centralization of the financing of government services and transfers. Revenues are raised centrally and then transferred, via grants-in-aid, to state and local governments. This paper seeks to explain...

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Income Inequality and Local Government in the United States, 1970-2000

Boustan, Leah Platt - 2010

The income distribution in many developed countries widened dramatically from 1970 to 2000. Scholars speculate that inequality contributes to a host of social ills by weakening the public sector. In contrast, we find that growing income inequality is associated with an expansion in revenues and...

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Does the Structure of Banking Markets Affect Economic Growth? Evidence from U.S. State Banking Markets

Mitchener, Kris - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between the structure of banking markets and economic growth using a new dataset on manufacturing industry-level growth rates and banking market concentration for U.S. states during 1899-1929--a period when the manufacturing sector was expanding rapidly and...

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Testing for the Economic Impact of the U.S. Constitution : Purchasing Power Parity Across the Colonies Versus Across the States, 1748-1811

Grubb, Farley Ward - 2009

The U.S. Constitution removed real and monetary trade barriers between the states. By contrast, these states when they were British colonies exercised considerable real and monetary autonomy over their borders. Purchasing power parity is used to measure how much economic integration between the...

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Landed Interests and Financial Underdevelopment in the United States

Rajan, Raghuram Govind - 2010

Landed elites in the United States in the early decades of the twentieth century played a significant role in restricting the development of finance. States that had higher land concentration passed more restrictive banking legislation. At the county level, counties with very concentrated land...

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Measuring the Spatial Distribution of Health Rankings in the United States

Davis, Will; Gordan, Alexander; Tchernis, Rusty - 2021

We rank counties in the United States of America with respect to population health. We utilize the five observable county health variables used to construct the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute’s County Health Rankings (CHRs). Our method relies on a factor analysis model to...

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Innovation in the U.S. Government

Bruce, Joshua R.; Figueiredo, John M. de - 2022

This paper examines the U.S. government’s intramural research and development efforts over a 40-year period, drawing together multiple human capital, government spending, and patent datasets. The U.S. Federal Government innovates along four dimensions: technological, organizational,...

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