Three Essays in Local Public Economics
Author: Philip William Sprunger
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 322
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Author: Philip William Sprunger
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 322
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gary Allen Hoover
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 178
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 426
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis dissertation explores three questions in empirical public economics: we investigate the impact of social networks on labour market outcomes in the first essay; we explore the determinants of volunteering behaviour and estimate the effect of employment on volunteering in the second essay; and we examine the impact of political and fiscal decentralization on public provision in the third essay. In each case, we provide consistent estimates by utilizing an exogenous source of variation in key economic outcomes introduced by randomized policy experiments in the first two essays and by a natural experiment in the third essay. In the first essay, we find that among social networks, weak ties have a significant effect on labour market outcomes but strong ties do not have. In the second essay, we find that employment has a significant effect on volunteering behaviour, and that the effect varies in different contexts and depends on the precise channels through which the two are connected. In the final essay, we find that decentralization has a big effect on public provision. But we also find that decentralization affects different public goods differently, and that the key to its impact lies in the incentives facing politicians at the local level.
Author: Byron F. Lutz
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 154
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Author: Jeffrey Andrew Hemmeter
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 218
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 512
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 105
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 258
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 126
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Santiago Miguel Pinto
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 258
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