The literatures testing for aggregate short‐run or long‐run growth impacts of fiscal policy use
quite different methodologies. The former generally focuses on temporary fiscal 'shocks'; the …

Early reviews of the academic literature on the economic effects of state and local taxes and
expenditures suggested that not enough was known upon which to base policy. The reviews …

I estimate the relationship between taxes and income growth using data from 1970-1999
and the forty-eight continental US states. I find that taxes used to fund general expenditures …

We exploit the cross-country differences in economic freedom to examine the link between
the quality of institutions and subjective well-being. Using Veenhoven's happiness dataset …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to test whether entrepreneurship is a significant factor
in explaining economic growth at the state level. Design/methodology/approach–This paper …

Concern about the effect of taxes on economic growth and development in the United States
is longstanding. While most studies are concerned with the growth impacts of tax burden …

This study examines the role of proximity in regional growth using a multi-dimensional
framework, for seven EU countries during 1990–2005. We incorporate geographical as well …

This article introduces the R package ExtremeBounds to perform extreme bounds analysis
(EBA), a sensitivity test that examines how robustly the dependent variable of a regression …

The WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health set out an impressive collection
of policy proposals on the social determinants of health. However, a serious weakness for …

What factors influence state economic growth? This article uses annual state (and local)
data for the years 1947 through 1997 for the forty-eight contiguous states to estimate the …