There is some current public concern about the effects of welfare programs on participants' decisions about marriage and divorce or having children. This paper discusses one way in which family composition may be affected by income maintenance program benefits, through what are called "price...

This paper designs a new equalization-aid formula based on fiscal gaps of local communities. When states are in transition to a new local aid formula, the issue of whether and how to hold existing aid harmless poses a challenge. The authors show that some previous studies and the formulas...

This paper discusses spatial interrelationships among economic units in the People's Republic of China. It characterizes these in the prereform period (before 1979) under a centralized economic command structure and analyzes their various adverse efficiency consequences. Requirements for...