An empirical study of matching grants: the 'cap on CAP.'

Article Abstract:

The reform in Canadian federal grants for welfare expenditures was studied. The implemented reform converted from an open-ended to a closed-ended matching grant federal grants for welfare. The cap was applied to only three provincial governments. The time series-cross section variation in the funding mechanism provided by the differential application of the reform were exploited by the empirical strategy adopted for the study. The results showed that there were reductions in the growth rate of expenditures in the affected provinces.

Administration of Human Resource Programs (except Education, Public Health, and Veterans' Affairs Programs), Income Security-State, Canada, Economic aspects, Economic policy, Manpower policy, Grants-in-aid, Federal aid to public welfare

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A simple proof of the efficiency of the poll tax

Article Abstract:

No relationship was established between excise taxation and a potential Pareto improvement over poll taxation. Such type of relationship persists even under the existence of a positive aggregate compensating variation. It was also shown that a positive sum of compensating variations can be attained if the hypothetical transfers create a sufficiently large decline in taxed commodity demand. Also, compensation for a move to excise taxation is impossible.

Tax Management, Research, Analysis, Tax accounting, Tax research, Poll tax

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Majority voting with single-crossing preferences

Article Abstract:

Researchers clarified and extended several sufficient conditions for the existence of voting equilibrium on one-dimensional choice domains. Such conditions impose order restrictions on voter preferences. The researchers then showed that voter preferences imply or are equivalent to a general, ordinal version of the single-crossing condition proposed by Milgrom and Shannon in 1994. Applications of this finding are demonstrated.

Social aspects, Voting research

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