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Diverse Experiences in Children's Literature: Langston Hughes
Abstract Providing students encounters with diverse books is an important endeavor, and Langston Hughes themed picture books can serve as one avenue for successfully incorporating diverse literature into elementary literacy instruction. Using the methods of qualitative content analysis (Schreier, 2014) this study investigates the ways in which Langston
Bethany P. Lewis
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The flypaper effect is undoubtedly among the most interesting concepts in subnational government spending behavior. This study is the first attempt to provide empirical evidence on the existence of the flypaper effect in the two largest economies in Sub-
Abdurrahman Isik +2 more
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Anomalies: The Flypaper Effect [PDF]
What happens to a state's spending when it receives an unconditional grant from the federal government? The standard theoretical analysis predicts that the increase in spending will be the same as that generated by an equivalent increase in local incomes--or roughly 5-10 percent for most states.
James R Hines, Richard H Thaler
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Volatile Mining Revenues and State Government Budget Decisions
Abstract Mining royalties provide a volatile source of revenue for state governments in Australia. We explore the effects of changes in royalty revenue received by a state government on current‐year budget decisions about expenditure, tax revenue and the budget surplus.
John Freebairn, William Griffiths
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Mobilising the Market: An Empirical Analysis of Crowdfunding for Judicial Review Litigation
This article provides an analysis of 413 crowdfunding campaigns raising funds for judicial review cases. In doing so, it empirically captures the judicial review crowdfunding landscape for the first time, drawing attention to the divergent rates of funding and generating a profile of the actors using the resource based on their geographic scope and ...
Sam Guy
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Nexus Between Flypaper Effect And Growth Inclusive Economy
Pendapatan Asli Daerah (PAD) dan Dana Alokasi Umum (DAU) ialah dana daerah untuk menganggarkan Belanja Modal (BM) dalam menyediakan fasilitas dan layanan masyarakat agar menciptakan Pertumbuhan Ekonomi inklusif (PE), sehingga kesejahteraan masyarakat ...
Annisa Azzahra +3 more
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The “Flypaper Effect” Is Not an Anomaly [PDF]
The empirical nonequivalence between grants by a central government and increases in community income (the “flypaper effect”) has been considered anomalous. But the “anomaly” label is naïve: in a multiconsumer community, equivalence demands an unlikely match of tax rules and income‐growth patterns.We go beyond the single‐policy‐variable, median‐voter ...
John E. Roemer, Joaquim Silvestre
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FLYPAPER EFFECT INCORPORATING SPATIAL INTERDEPENDENCE [PDF]
This paper examines the decentralization process in the state of Maharashtra. Among the states in India, Maharashtra's efforts at decentralization are regarded as a success story. Using cross‐section data for 243 urban local governments, the paper examines the flypaper effect, that is, the expenditure stimulus of grants from the state government to the
Ajit Karnik, Mala Lalvani
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Fiscal decentralization and efficiency of public services delivery by local governments in Ghana
Abstract In this paper, we estimate the efficiency of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in Ghana, and investigate the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of local public goods and services delivery by MMDAs. Using data from composite budgets of all 216 MMDAs, we employ both non‐parametric and parametric frontier ...
Isaac Otoo, Michael Danquah
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Globalisation and government spending: Evidence for the ‘hyper‐globalisation’ of the 1990s and 2000s
Abstract In this paper, we provide an up‐to‐date empirical assessment of the relationship between economic globalisation and government spending for the ‘hyper‐globalisation’ period of the 1990s and 2000s. We use data on government consumption spending and more disaggregated spending components (e.g., social welfare).
Edward Anderson, Samuel Obeng
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