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Clark, Benjamin Y.; Whitford, Andrew B. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2011
We examine the flow of federal grants-in-aid from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the states. We simultaneously model two dependent variables (the flow of EPA funds, and state environmental and natural resource budgets) to identify the independent roles of state political institutions, political preferences, economic and…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Grants, Federal Aid, State Norms
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Bania, Neil; Stone, Joe A. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2008
This paper offers unique rankings of the extent to which fiscal structures of U.S. states contribute to economic growth. The rankings are novel in two key respects: They are well grounded in established growth theory, in which the effect of taxes depends both on the level of taxes and on the composition of expenditures; and they are derived from…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Social Services, Fiscal Capacity, Economic Factors