How does municipal policy affect state and local actions? Evidence from land conservation spending
| Autor: | Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, Patrick Prendergast, Corey Lang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Economics and Econometrics
Government Public economics media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences ComputingMilieux_LEGALASPECTSOFCOMPUTING Context (language use) Affect (psychology) State (polity) Causal inference Voting 0502 economics and business Referendum Regression discontinuity design 050202 agricultural economics & policy Business 050207 economics media_common |
| Zdroj: | Resource and Energy Economics. 54:23-36 |
| ISSN: | 0928-7655 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2018.06.001 |
| Popis: | Understanding responses to government action is critical for developing efficient policy. In the context of land conservation, this paper examines whether municipal policy has a crowding-in or crowding-out effect on neighboring municipalities’ actions and state government actions. Importantly, we focus on municipal conservation referendums, which allow us to use a regression discontinuity framework for causal inference. Using data from Massachusetts and New Jersey, our findings suggest municipal conservation decisions have no effect on neighboring local governments’ or the state’s conservation activity. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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