The Effect of Rising Income Inequality on Taxation and Public Expenditures: Evidence from U.S. Municipalities and School Districts, 1970–2000

By L. Boustan, Fernando V. Ferreira, Hernan Winkler, Eric M. Zolt. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Who Pays for Government? Descriptive Representation and Exploitative Revenue Sources (2017, methodology): “We focus on cities with at least 2,500 persons, as this is the conventional definition of urban areas used by the Census and many other scholars (e.g., Boustan et al. 2013).”
• Income inequality and violent crime : evidence from Mexico's drug war (2014, unknown): “…and inequality in Mexico, and, by using the predicted income distribution of a municipality based on the initial income distribution of the local area and the national patterns of income growth, we construct an instrument (predicted Gini) for the observed Gini coefficient (Boustan et al. 2013).”
• Segregation and Inequality in Public Goods (2016, background): “19 In contrast, the categorical expenditure variables include all spending on a certain target regardless of the source of the funds. populations of racial and ethnic minorities to support more per capita expenditure as Boustan et al 2013 find.”
• Causal Inference in Urban and Regional Economics (2014, unknown): “Boustan et al. (2013) use Bartik instruments to help demonstrate that jurisdictions with greater increases in income inequality collected more local government revenues and had higher expenditures.”
• Trade Shocks and the Provision of Local Public Goods (2017, background): “Relatedly, Boustan et al. (2013), find that income inequality may be beneficial to the funding of local public goods, with high-income individuals disproportionately paying for and subsidizing services for the rest of the local population.”