Economics of State and Local Government: Levels, Sources, and Uses of Funds in the Mid-American States, 1790-1980

美国经济定量记录中剩下的差距之一是， 历史是缺乏关于财政活动的详细信息， 州和地方政府。 关于联邦的年度时间序列数据 从1798年开始，收入和支出是可用的，但类似的 州和地方政府的信息非常稀少， 尤其是在1900年之前。 在之前的NSF奖项中， 调查人员在开始缩小这一差距方面取得了良好进展。 他们已经成功地收集了一个精心构建的数据集， 从1790年到现在的大西洋沿岸各州。 这样做的目的 项目是扩大这一数据集，包括16个中西部 states. 国家文件，出版和未出版的，将提供 完整的国家一级支出和收入估计数的基础。 地方政府的估计将基于抽样程序。 这组数据对感兴趣的学者来说将是极其有价值的 政府在美国经济发展中的作用 States. 它将使研究人员能够以定量的方式解决 关于公共和私营部门互动的一系列问题 部门随着时间的推移。 主要调查人员已经证明 他们构建和开始分析这些扩展的 数据集 调查人员联合收割机组成了一个富有成效的研究 团队，有充分的理由相信，这个项目将证明， 像上一个一样成功。

One of the remaining gaps in the quantitative record of U.S. economic history is the lack of detailed information on the fiscal activities of state and local governments. Annual time-series data on federal revenues and expenditures are available from 1798 on, but similar information for state and local governments is very sparse, particularly before 1900. In the course of the previous NSF award, the investigators have made good progress in beginning to close this gap. They have managed to assemble a carefully constructed data-set for the Atlantic seaboard states from 1790 to the present. The purpose of this project is to expand this data set to include the sixteen midwestern states. State documents, published and unpublished, will furnish the basis for complete state level expenditure and revenue estimates. Local government estimates will be based on sampling procedures. This data set will be extremely valuable to scholars interested in the role of government in the economic development of the United States. It will allow researchers to address, in a quantitative way, a host of questions regarding the interaction of the public and private sectors over time. The principal investigators have demonstrated their capabilities to construct and to begin analyzing this expanded data set. The investigators combine to form a productive research team, and there is every reason to believe that this project will prove as successful as the previous one.