Do Small States Get More Federal Monies? Myth and Reality About the US Senate Malapportionment

Cecilia Testa

No 09/04, Royal Holloway, University of London: Discussion Papers in Economics from Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London

Abstract: We analyze the relationship between senate malapportionment and the allocation of the US federal budget to the states during the period 1978-2002. A substantial literature originating from the influential paper by Atlas et al. (1995) finds that small and overrepresented states get significantly larger shares of federal funds. We show that these studies suffer from fundamental identification problems and grossly overestimate the impact of malapportionment. Most of the estimated impact is not a scale but a change effect. Rather than evidence of "small state advantage", we find that states with fast growing population are penalized in the allocation of the federal budget independently of whether they are large or small.

Keywords: federal budget; malapportionment; small state advantage; overrepresentation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 H61 H77 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-03
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