TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Hammond, George W.
AU  - Tosun, Mehmet S.
        TI  - The Impact of Local Decentralization on Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S. Counties
        PY  - 2009/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4574
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4574
        AB  - We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our findings suggest that government organization matters for local economic growth, but that the impacts vary by government unit and by economic indicator. We find that single-purpose governments per square mile have a positive impact on metropolitan population and employment growth, but no significant impact on nonmetropolitan counties. In contrast, the fragmentation of general-purpose governments per capita has a negative impact on employment and population growth in nonmetropolitan counties. Our results suggest that local government decentralization matters differently for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan counties.
        KW  - employment
KW  - population
KW  - nonmetropolitan
KW  - metropolitan
KW  - fiscal decentralization
KW  - income
KW  - spatial econometrics
        ER  -