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Decentralization in the Public Sector: An Empirical Study of State and Local Government

In: Fiscal Federalism: Quantitative Studies

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John Joseph Wallis
Wallace E. Oates
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This chapter was published in: John Joseph Wallis & Wallace E. Oates Fiscal Federalism: Quantitative Studies, , pages 5-32, 1988.

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Harvey S. Rosen, 1988. "Fiscal Federalism: Quantitative Studies," NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number rose88-1.
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