Higgins, Matthew John; Young, Andrew T.; Levy, Daniel - 2015
growth and the size of government at three levels: federal, state and local. Using 3SLS-IV estimation we find that the size … of federal, state and local government all either negatively correlate with or are uncorrelated with economic growth. We … find no evidence that government is more efficient at more or less decentralized levels. Furthermore, while we cannot …