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0.40 David N. Figlio Arthur O’Sullivan, The Local Response to Tax Limitation Measures: Do Local Governments Manipulate Voters to Increase Revenues?, Journal of Law and Economics, 2001.
0.33 Richard E. Wagner Warren E. Weber, Competition Monopoly and the Organization of Government in Metropolitan Areas, Journal of Law and Economics, 1975.
0.33 W. Mark Crain Timothy J. Muris, Legislative Organization of Fiscal Policy, Journal of Law and Economics, 1995.
0.29 William A. Niskanen, Bureaucrats and Politicians, Journal of Law and Economics, 1975.
0.28 W. Mark Crain Lisa K. Oakley, The Politics of Infrastructure, Journal of Law and Economics, 1995.
0.28 Elizabeth Becker Cotton M. Lindsay, Does the Government Free Ride?, Journal of Law and Economics, 1994.
0.26 William Clark, Production Costs and Output Qualities in Public and Private Employment Agencies, Journal of Law and Economics, 1988.
0.25 Vincent Ostrom, Competition Monopoly and the Organization of Government in Metropolitan Areas: Comment, Journal of Law and Economics, 1975.
0.25 Dolores Tremewan Martin Richard E. Wagner, The Institutional Framework for Municipal Incorporation: An Economic Analysis of Local Agency Formation Commissions in California, Journal of Law and Economics, 1978.
0.24 Jerome Rothenberg, Competition Monopoly and the Organization of Government in Metropolitan Areas: Comment, Journal of Law and Economics, 1975.
0.24 John G. Matsusaka, Fiscal Effects of the Voter Initiative in the First Half of the Twentieth Century, Journal of Law and Economics, 2000.
0.23 Gary M. Anderson Robert D. Tollison, Congressional Influence and Patterns of New Deal Spending 1933-1939. Journal of Law and Economics, 1991,
0.23 Price V. Fishback Ryan S. Johnson Shawn Kantor, Striking at the Roots of Crime: The Impact of Welfare Spending on Crime during the Great Depression, Journal of Law and Economics, 2010.
0.22 Julius Margolis, Bureaucrats and Politicians: Comment, Journal of Law and Economics, 1975.
0.20 W. Mark Crain, Districts Diversity and Fiscal Biases: Evidence from the American States, Journal of Law and Economics, 1999.
0.19 Herbert Stein, Pre-Revolutionary Fiscal Policy: The Regime of Herbert Hoover, Journal of Law and Economics, 1966.
0.18 George J. Borjas, The Politics of Employment Discrimination in the Federal Bureaucracy, Journal of Law and Economics, 1982.
0.18 Thomas A. Garrett Gary A. Wagner, Red Ink in the Rearview Mirror: Local Fiscal Conditions and the Issuance of Traffic Tickets, Journal of Law and Economics, 2009.
0.17 J. F. Barron, Restrictive Hiring Practices in Institutions of Higher Learning in California, Journal of Law and Economics, 1961.
0.16 Christopher R. Berry Jacob E. Gersen, Fiscal Consequences of Electoral Institutions, Journal of Law and Economics, 2009.
0.15 David G. Davies, Property Rights and Economic Efficiency--The Australian Airlines Revisited, Journal of Law and Economics, 1977.
0.15 Gary S. Becker Casey B. Mulligan, Deadweight Costs and the Size of Government, Journal of Law and Economics, 2003.