THE ASSIGNMENT OF FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY IN A FEDERAL STATE: AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT

1 June 1988

journal article
research article
Published by University of Chicago Press in National Tax Journal

Vol. 41 (2) , 191-207
https://doi.org/10.1086/ntj41788721

Abstract

This paper uses the assignments of fiscal responsibility in the U.S. public primary and secondary school finance systems to test the key propositions of the optimal federal design literature. It is...

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