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The Impact of State and Local Taxes on Growth Using Improved Tax Measures
Current & Recent Research Projects
  • Timothy J. Bartik, , Principal Investigator, W.E. Upjohn Institute
Year
2010
Project Dates
03/01/2008 - 02/28/2010
Description

In collaboration with Alan Peters and Peter Fisher of the University of Iowa, this research project provided important new evidence on a long-standing controversy in academic and public policy circles: whether tax incentives are a cost-effective means of stimulating state economic growth. The research used a superior measure of the crucial explanatory variable—state and local taxes on business—and tested the sensitivity of the results to the kind of tax measure used. This project refocused scholarly debate on replicable findings about the impact of state and local business taxes on economic growth. The results were disseminated to the economic development policy community for their use in evaluation of state and local tax and development policy.

Publications

The Impact of Marginal Business Taxes on State Manufacturing, Richard Funderburg, Timothy J. Bartik, Alan H. Peters, Peter S. Fisher. Journal of Regional Science, 53(4)(2013)

Sponsorship
Fastlane Software
Citation Information
Timothy J. Bartik. "The Impact of State and Local Taxes on Growth Using Improved Tax Measures" (2010)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/timothy_bartik/54/