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

在美国经济史的量化记录中，尚存的空白之一是关于州和地方政府财政活动的详细信息。1789年以来的联邦收入和支出的年度时间序列是可以得到的，但是关于州和地方政府的类似信息很少，特别是1900年以前。该项目通过为每个州制定州收入和支出的年度时间序列估计和地方收入和支出的十年估计，并辅以大城市的一系列数据，缩小了19个西部州的统计差距。这些数列表明财政活动的总体水平以及资金的来源和使用情况。公布的和未公布的国家文件为完整的国家估计提供了基础。地方政府的估计是基于抽样程序。这个项目应该得到资助，因为它为美国经济史和公共财政创造了一个独特而宝贵的数据库。这项工作的前两个阶段覆盖了从大西洋沿岸到密西西比河的各州。这笔拨款完成了整个美国的数据库。这些数据可以通过大学间政治和社会研究联盟公开获得。该项目还编写了一系列论文，总结了该国每个地区各州的财政历史，并研究了19世纪的公共财政问题和政府角色。

One of the remaining gaps in the quantitative record of U.S. economic history is detailed information on the fiscal activities of state and local governments. Annual time series on federal revenues and expenditures are available from 1789 on, but similar information on state and local governments is sparse, particularly before 1900. This project closes the statistical gap for nineteen western states by developing for each state annual time-series estimates of state revenues and expenditures and decennial estimates for local revenues and expenditures, supplemented by a series on large cities. These series indicate overall levels of fiscal activity and the sources and uses of funds. State documents, published and unpublished, furnish the basis for complete state level estimates. Local government estimates are based on a sampling procedure. This project should be funded because it creates a unique and invaluable database for U.S. economic history and public finance. The first two stages of the work covered states from the Atlantic seaboard to the Mississippi. This grant completes the database for the entire United States. The data is publicly available through the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research. The project also produces a series of papers summarizing the fiscal history of states in each region of the country and studies on questions of public finance and the role of government in the 19th century.