Search Results - subject:"Equalization"

Equalization is broken : how the continuous growth requirement inhibits reform

Eisen, Ben; Emes, Joel - Fraser Institute - 2026

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School finance centralization and revenue levels : evidence from a school finance reform

Choi, Jinsub - In: Journal of applied economics 26 (2023) 1, pp. 1-19

This paper studies whether the centralization of public school finance affects school revenue levels. The theoretical framework indicates that centralization has price and income effects on the pivotal voter's demand for school revenue, but the overall effect is ambiguous. A public school...

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Equalization through the People's Republic of China's intergovernmental fiscal system : the effectiveness of central and provincial transfers

Tan, Xiao; Tan, Ying - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 41 (2024) 1, pp. 227-261

heavy reliance on transfers to ﬁnance public services. The government's embrace of inclusiveness and equalization as … national goals has raised questions about whether transfers can deliver equalization. This paper seeks to answer this question … exert greater equalization eﬀorts, but these are not necessarily proportional to their pretransfer inequality. As a result …

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Skimming the achieved? : quantifying the fiscal incentives of the German fiscal equalization scheme and its reforms since 1970

Bury, Yannick; Feld, Lars P.; Burret, Heiko Tobias - In: Economics of governance 25 (2024) 3, pp. 291-334

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Do mission-oriented grant schemes shape the direction of science?

Mancuso, Raffaele; Broström, Anders - In: Research policy : policy, management and economic … 55 (2026) 1, pp. 1-16

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Fiscal transfers to local governments and the distribution of economic activity

Lyytikäinen, Teemu; Ramboer, Sander; Toikka, Max - 2024

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Politics and public banks : BNDES loans to local governments in Brazil

Pinto, Guilherme Paiva; Bugarin, Mauricio Soares; … - In: Economia : journal of the Latin American and Caribbean … 25 (2026) 1, pp. 139-155

This study advances a quantitative political economy analysis of development banking within federative systems, focusing on Brazil's National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES). Moving beyond traditional fiscal transfer models, we investigate the mechanisms through which federal...

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Do fiscal transfers stick under fiscal stress? : evidence of the flypaper effect from Manipur, North-Eastern Region of India

Jacob, Gaidimlung K. - 2026

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Intergovernmental grants to school districts and educational outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic

Clemens, Jeffrey; Hoxie, Philip G.; Veuger, Stan - 2026

During the COVID-19 pandemic the US federal government appropriated $189.5 billion in emergency aid to school districts. These funds were supplied to help districts replace lost revenues and to mitigate the harmful effects of the pandemic on learning and other measures of district performance....

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Reconsidering the Stolper-Samuelson theorem : empirical evidence from developing countries

In: Ekonomika : mokslo žurnalas 105 (2026) 1, pp. 60-74

Studies measuring the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic remain limited in the empirical literature. For this reason, this study estimated the determinants of income distribution for labor and non-labor production factors in the period 2014-2022 within the framework of the Stolper-Samuelson (SS)...

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