Walking the fiscal tightrope: local government budgeting and fiscal stress

Cope, Glen Hahn

doi:10.1080/01900699208524751

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“…17 See Cope (1992), Lewis (1994) Poterba & Rueben (1995), Shadbegian (1998) and Shavell (1991). 19 See, for example, LA Times (1966), Ireton (1976), or Recktenwald (1986a,b).…”

Section: Empirical Strategymentioning

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More Cops, Fewer Prisoners?

Kaplan

Chalfin

2018

SSRN Journal

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“…17 See Cope (1992), Lewis (1994) Poterba & Rueben (1995), Shadbegian (1998) and Shavell (1991). 19 See, for example, LA Times (1966), Ireton (1976), or Recktenwald (1986a,b).…”

Section: Empirical Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

More Cops, Fewer Prisoners?

Kaplan

Chalfin

2018

SSRN Journal

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“…Our results indicate that, if anything, our primary estimates are conservative. 18 See Cope (1992), Lewis (1994), andRubin (2016) for a detailed discussion of this point. 19 See Joyce and Mullins (1991), Poterba and Rueben (1995), Shadbegian (1998), andShavell (1991).…”

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More cops, fewer prisoners?

Kaplan

Chalfin

2019

Criminology & Public Policy

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Research Summary The results reported in a large amount of the criminology literature reveal that hiring police officers leads to reductions in crime and that investments in police are an efficient means of crime control compared with investments in prisons. One concern, however, is that because police officers make arrests in the course of their duties, police hiring, albeit efficient, is an inevitable driver of “mass incarceration.” In this article, we consider the dynamics through which police hiring affects downstream incarceration rates. Policy Implications Using state‐level panel data as well county‐level data from California, we uncover novel evidence in favor of a potentially unexpected and yet entirely intuitive result: that investments in law enforcement are unlikely to increase state prison populations markedly and may even lead to a modest decrease in the number of state prisoners. As such, investments in police may, in fact, yield a “double dividend” to society by reducing incarceration rates as well as crime rates.

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What Do We Really Know about Municipal Finance?

Neuby

2005

Politics &Amp; Policy

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Despite claims that cities have experienced fiscal stress, aiztafiom other sources show that cities have enduredjinancial challenges by finding new revenue sources and techniques. An analysis of census data from 1967-2000 indicates that the pattern of municipal revenues has changed from reliance on property tares to greater reliance on charges. While revenues have outpaced expenditures, both revenues and expenditures have grown far more than would have been necessary to keep pace with inflation and indicate a worrisome trend toward borrowing. Howevec limitations of current data collection raise questions of validity. Data collection and reporting must improve if appropriate policy decisions are to follow.

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Walking the fiscal tightrope: local government budgeting and fiscal stress

Cited by 7 publications

References 5 publications

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