Numerous earlier studies have, for the most part, found empirical support for the Tiebout-Tullock hypothesis for the periods of the 1950s and 1960s. The present study draws on more recent data, including the 1980 Census of the Population, to find additional new support for the Tiebout-Tullock...

The original Buchanan-Tullock formulation of collective decision-making costs may be expanded to: <Equation ID="E1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX"> $$C_i =C_i (N_a ,N,H)$$ </EquationSource> </Equation> <Equation ID="E2"> <EquationSource Format="TEX"> $$D_i =D_i (N_a ,H)$$ </EquationSource> </Equation> <Equation ID="E3"> <EquationSource Format="TEX"> $$G_i =G_i (N,H)$$ </EquationSource> </Equation> Analysis of the effects of group size (N), decision rules (N <Subscript> a </Subscript>), and homogeneity (H) on external costs (C <Subscript> i </Subscript>),...</subscript></subscript></equationsource></equation></equationsource></equation></equationsource></equation>

This paper has investigated the impact of geographic welfare benefit differentials upon migration in the United States. Unlike other related studies, which typically focus upon black migration (as a surrogate measure of migration of the poor), the present study focuses directly upon migration of...

The above results may be interpreted, as follows: political pressure to raise welfare (AFDC) levels is greater in those states where the population actually receiving welfare (AFDC) is greater and where unemployment among adult non-welfare recipients (who may expect to become welfare-eligible)...

This brief study demonstrates that, within the context of a properly specified reduced-form equation estimated by OLS, the federal budget deficit does act to elevate interest rates. These results differ sharply from Gupta's, where the total deficit is not broken down properly into its endogenous...