The Government Finance Database: A Common Resource for Quantitative Research in Public Financial Analysis |
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Authors: | Kawika Pierson Michael L. Hand Fred Thompson |
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Affiliation: | Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Center for Governance and Public Policy Research, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, United States of America.; Queen''s University Belfast, UNITED KINGDOM, |
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Abstract: | Quantitative public financial management research focused on local governments is limited by the absence of a common database for empirical analysis. While the U.S. Census Bureau distributes government finance data that some scholars have utilized, the arduous process of collecting, interpreting, and organizing the data has led its adoption to be prohibitive and inconsistent. In this article we offer a single, coherent resource that contains all of the government financial data from 1967-2012, uses easy to understand natural-language variable names, and will be extended when new data is available. |
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