Purpose: As a component of a benefit-cost analysis into the efficacy of publicly funded facility incentives, the purpose of this paper is to examine the county-wide impact of business incubators, makerspaces and co-working spaces on employment, proprietor’s employment and the average wage per...

This analysis investigates the impact of public transit in counties with small to medium-sized cities. The objectives are to answer: Do counties with bus transit have lower growth in transfer payments such as food stamps, Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF), or higher income growth,...

This research estimates fiscal impacts of Wal-Mart in Ohio from 1985 through 2003. Using a panel of counties, and accounting for spatial autocorrelation in an instrumental variable model I estimate impact of Wal-Mart and Super-Centers on selected revenues and transfer payments. Among the...

There are good arguments for an individual income tax on potential income, but a drawback to such a tax is the significant administrative concern regardingits implementation. This paper argues that human-capital theory provides a widely accepted and straightforward method to estimate potential...

The authors examine two factors that may affect student achievement in economics principles courses: working for pay and the primary source of funds (employer tuition reimbursement, loans, scholarships, financial aid, self-financing, parental transfers, other) used to pay for college for a...

We use a regional computable general equilibrium (CGE) model and Indiana data to examine both the short-run and the long-run effects of property tax rate limits and an increase in the sales tax rate. We find that the property tax caps and sales tax rate increase have a relatively small impact on...