A Model of State Income Maintenance Decisions

Frank Sloan

Public Finance Review, 1977, vol. 5, issue 2, 139-173

Abstract: This study presents a model of state-local government budgetary choice with particular emphasis on the impact of federal grants-in-aid on income maintenance decisions on the part of the recipient governments. The model assumes that the state sets the level of five decision variables in a manner that maximizes political leadership utility subject to a government budget constraint. As part of the study, parameters of the political leaders' preference function are estimated as are parameters of equations explaining the reactions of potential welfare recipients and local bureaucrats, once certain welfare regulations are set at the state level. The model permits simulations of the effects of alternative public programs. These are briefly described.

Date: 1977
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/109114217700500201 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:pubfin:v:5:y:1977:i:2:p:139-173

DOI: 10.1177/109114217700500201

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Public Finance Review
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().