Reassessing the “Race to the Bottom” in State Welfare Policy

By William D. Berry, Richard C. Fording, Russell L. Hanson. 2003

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A Wider Race? Interstate Competition across Health and Welfare Programs (2004, background): “…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 (2003) argue neighbor benefit levels exert a statistically significant, but substantively inconsequential, effect.”
Learning From Others (2009, background): “…though Collier and Messick (1975, 1272) contended more than 30 years ago that welfare states have developed interdependently, and despite the important literature on the diffusion of welfare policies in US states (for example, Berry, Fording, and Hanson 2003; Berry and Baybeck 2005; Volden 2006).”
Performance Rating and Yardstick Competition in Social Service Provision (2006, unknown): “[7] represent exceptions, in that they estimate structural models including a bene ̄t setting equation and a recipiency ratio (poverty rate) determination equation.”