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Structural Shifts In The Treatment Of Intergovernmental Aid: The Case Of Rural Roads

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  • Deller, Steven C.
  • Walzer, Norman

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The effects of structural shifts in the treatment of intergovernmental aid during the 1980s are tested using a sample of 1,929 rural counties with local road responsibilities. A dynamic model is used to test the hypothesis that local public officials treated intergovernmental aid differently after the Reagan/Bush policy of Fiscal Federalism was implemented. Empirical findings from the dynamic model are that federal aid was much more simulative at the end of the decade than in earlier years but the effects of state aid remained the same throughout the 1980s. These differences are attributed to a perception that federal aid is less certain and more transitory than permanent.

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Article provided by Southern Agricultural Economics Association in its journal Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics.

Volume (Year): 27 (1995)
Issue (Month): 02 (December)
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Handle: RePEc:ags:joaaec:15283

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Keywords: Intergovernmental aid; Simulative and substitutive effects; Transitory and permanent effects; Rural roads; Public Economics;

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  1. Baumel, C. Phillip & Shornhorst, Eldo, 1983. "Local Rural Roads and Bridges: Current and Future Problems and Alternatives," Staff General Research Papers 11669, Iowa State University, Department of Economics.
  2. Philip J. Grossman, 1989. "Intergovernmental grants and grantor government own-purpose expenditures," Monash Economics Working Papers archive-12, Monash University, Department of Economics.
  3. Philip J. Grossman, 1990. "The impact of federal and state grants on local government spending: A test of the fiscal illusion hypothesis," Monash Economics Working Papers archive-11, Monash University, Department of Economics.
  4. Griliches, Zvi & Hausman, Jerry A., 1986. "Errors in variables in panel data," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 31(1), pages 93-118, February.
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  1. Steven Deller & Craig Maher & Victor Lledo, 2002. "Wisconsin Local Government, State Shared Revenues and the Illusive Flypaper Effect," Wisconsin-Madison Agricultural and Applied Economics Staff Papers 451, Wisconsin-Madison Agricultural and Applied Economics Department.
  2. Swenson, David & Deller, Steven C., 2001. "Devolution or Convolution? The Changing Relationship Between Federal, State and Local Governments," Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, Mid-Continent Regional Science Association, vol. 31(1).
  3. Juan González Alegre, 2012. "An evaluation of EU regional policy. Do structural actions crowd out public spending?," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 151(1), pages 1-21, April.
  4. Steven C. Deller & Craig S. Maher, 2006. "A Model of Asymmetries in the Flypaper Effect," Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Oxford University Press, vol. 36(2), pages 213-229.
  5. GONZÁLEZ ALEGRE, Juan, 2008. "The Distribution of Public Expenditure in Europe," Open Access publications from European University Institute urn:hdl:1814/9868, European University Institute.

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