Previous research has shown that Tiebout-style fiscal competition among local governments reduces the likelihood of adopting income taxes. This literature has not yet considered the impact of yardstick competition on tax instrument choice. This paper employs spatial econometrics to test for...

This paper provides an historical example that appears to illustrate how racial fractionalization reduces school district academic performance. Hall and Leeson (AJES 2010) find a negative relationship between racial fractionalization and school district performance in a sample of Ohio school...