A Model of Welfare Competition with Evidence from AFDC

By L. Saavedra. 2000

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations

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Reassessing the “Race to the Bottom” in State Welfare Policy (2003, background): “…University of Kentucky Russell L. Hanson Indiana University Bloomington On the assumption that poor people migrate to obtain better welfare benefits, the magnet hypothesis predicts that a state’s poverty rate increases when its welfare benefit rises faster than benefits in surrounding states.”
In search of yardstick competition: a spatial analysis of Italian municipality property tax setting (2003, background): “[23], Brett and Pinkse [16], Saavedra [32], Revelli [29–31], and Sole-”
Expenditure spillovers and fiscal interactions: Empirical evidence from local governments in Spain (2006, background): “3 These papers can be included within a broader strand of empirical literature analyzing strategic interactions between subnational governments (see Brueckner [12] for a survey), but most of them focus on tax interactions (Besley and Case [5], Brett and Pinkse [11], Buettner, [14] and Brueckner and ”
Yardstick competition in a Federation: Theory and Evidence from China (2012, methodology): “…IV method which yields consistent estimations even with spatial error dependence (see Kelejian and Prucha (1998)).42 Brueckner and Saavedra (2000), Saavedra (2000) or Foucault, Madies, and Paty (2008) use the tests of Anselin, Bera, Florax, and Yoon (1996) to verify the hypothesis of error…”
Issues in Spatial Data Analysis (2010, background): “7Bordignon, Cerniglia, and Revelli (2003), Brett and Pinkse (2000), Brueckner (1998), Brueckner and Saavedra (2001), Case, Rosen, and Hines (1993), Fredriksson and Millimet (2002), Millimet and Rangaprasad (2007), and Saavedra (2000) are examples of good applications of the spatial lag model.”
A Wider Race? Interstate Competition across Health and Welfare Programs (2004, background): “After controlling for political, economic, and social factors, most researchers have found that states are affected by their neighbors (Figlio, Kolpin, and Reid 1999; Peterson and Rom 1990; Rom, Peterson, and Scheve 1998; Saavedra 2000; Tweedie 1994; Volden 2002) although Berry, Fording, and Hanson ”
Performance Rating and Yardstick Competition in Social Service Provision (2006, unknown): “4Smith [49], Shroder [47], Smith [50], Rom et al. [43], Figlio et al. [29], Saavedra [44], Wheaton [53], Bailey and Rom [6], Berry et al. [7].”