While philanthropy is seen as a critical instrument for wealth redistribution in countries with low state capacity or weak welfare institutions, there is little empirical evidence of its distributional consequences. How does philanthropic public good provision affect inequalities in access to...

This paper employs Roback's locational-equilibrium model of public-goods pricing, cross-sectional data from the Census of Population and Housing, and SMSA-level estimates of public capital stocks in order to examine the productive contribution of public capital. I find that public capital has a...

Public goods networks arouse conflict between those who already benefit from the project and those who merely pay its costs. Thus, it may seem that it is difficult for pork-barrel politicians to target these public goods for logrolling with other districts. The purpose of this paper is to show...