Endogenous Federal Grants and Crowd-out of State Government Spending: Theory and Evidence from the Federal Highway Aid Program

By Brian G. Knight. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Modeling the Growth of Transportation Networks: A Comprehensive Review (2009, methodology): “Kansky (1969) developed a quantitative predictive model of network structure and applied it to the Sicilian railroad.”
Using a discontinuous grant rule to identify the effect of grants on local taxes and spending (2008, background): “…the grant system is designed in negotiations between central politicians representing different local regions, or between central and local politicians, which implies that preferences for local spending and grants distribution will be correlated (this is along the lines of the Knight, 2002, story).”
Roads and Trade: Evidence from the US (2014, background): “From the descriptions of Knight (2002, 2004) and Duranton and Turner (2010), funding for interstate highways in the us is determined by a formula, but with the possibility for legislators in the relevant committees to alter the distribution.”
Centralized Versus Decentralized Provision of Local Public Goods: a Political Economy Analysis (2003, unknown): “See Knight (2002) for further analysis of the allocation of funds in the Federal Highway Aid Program. democracy (Osborne and Slivinski, 1996; Besley and Coate, 1997), in particular the extension to legislative elections due to Coate (1997).”
Finders Keepers: Forfeiture Laws, Policing Incentives, and Local Budgets (2004, background): “10 See Hines and Thaler (1995) for an overview and Knight (2002) for alternate explanations.”
The importance of modeling spatial spillovers in public choice analysis (2012, background): “There are also possible connections to the literature on the role of intergovernmental grants and fiscal illusion (Grossman 1990) as well as the crowding-out effects of these grants ( Knight 2002 ).”
The Value of School Facility Investments: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design (2010, background): “…effect is well documented in a variety of settings, most notably in the context of intergovernmental grants (e.g. Bradford and Oates 1971a, 1971b).14 Knight (2002), however, has challenged the evidence for flypaper effects, arguing that most papers do not adequately account for the endogeneity of…”
The financing of local government in China: Stimulus loan wanes and shadow banking waxes (2020, background): “However, if MCB issuance in later years was driven by channels other than the stimulus loan hangover mechanism, we can alleviate this endogeneity issue by controlling for the simultaneous economic conditions, following Knight (2002) , Huang et al. (2017) , and Leduc and Wilson (2017) .”