Using data on 48 contiguous U.S. states and a spatial econometric approach, this paper examines short- and long-run effects of productive higher education and highway infrastructure spending financed by different revenue sources on state economic growth. Following the Lagrange Multiplier, Wald,...

This paper estimates human capital externalities across U.S. states, using the Current Population Survey (CPS) and state-level data. By directly controlling for individual job characteristics and state labor market conditions, we can identify the human capital externality in an augmented...

This paper investigates the impact of e-government on corruption across U.S. states for 2000-2008. Relative to cross-country research, our state-level analysis provides (i) multiple measures of corruption, (ii) sub-components of e-government, (iii) common institutional and historical background...