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Rappaport Institute Policy Notes Database
Public Finance
For more information on each entry, please click the title of each dataset.
| "Subject to Appropriations" Funding for Tobacco Control in Massachusetts, 1993 - 2003 |
| Aligning Resources, Needs, and Wants: Public Budgeting and Management |
| Amenity-Based Housing Affordability Indexes |
| Betting the Future: The Economic Impact of Legalized Gambling |
| Borrowing Trouble VII: Higher Cost Mortgage Lending in Boston, Greater Boston, and Massachusetts, 2005 |
| Budgeting for Basics: The Changing Landscape of City Finances |
| Can CitiStat Work in Greater Boston? |
| Capital Gains: Its Recent, Varied and Growing Impact on State Revenues |
| Citizen Participation and Local Governmental Choice in Local Environmental Controversies |
| Do New England State and Local Governments Have Too Many Employees, and Are They Overpaid? |
| Economic and Fiscal Impact of the 2004 Democratic National Convention |
| Facing the Fiscal Crisis in State Governments: National Problem, National Responsibilities |
| Fear and Loathing in Massachusetts: Chapter 40B, Community Opposition, and Residential Property Value |
| How Good a Deal Was the Tobacco Settlement? Accessing Payments to Massachusetts |
| Incentives, Capacity, and Implementation: Evidence from Massachusetts Education Reform |
| Local Services, Local Aid and Common Challenges |
| Massachusetts Business Taxes: Unfair? Inadequate? Uncompetitive? |
| Measuring Disparities in Non-School Costs and Revenue Capacity Among Massachusetts Cities and Towns |
| Monopoly-Creating Bank Consolidation? The Merger of Fleet and BankBoston |
| Mortgage Lending to Traditionally Underserved Borrowers and Neighborhoods in Greater Boston, 1990 - 2003 |
| Out of Control: What Can We Learn from the End of Massachusetts Rent Control? |
| Property Tax Limits and Local Fiscal Behavior: Did Massachusetts Cities and Towns Spend Too Little on Town Services Under Proposition 2½? |
| Revenue Sharing and the Future of the Massachusetts Economy |
| Robin Hood and His Not-So-Merry Plan: Capitalization and the Self-Destruction of Texas' School Finance Equalization Plan |
| Space Available: The Realities of Convention Centers as Economic Development Strategy |
| Subprime Mortgage Lending in Greater Boston, 2000 - 2003 |
| The Comparative Cost of Labor in Massachusetts and the Boston Metropolitan Area: Another Look at the Empirical Evidence |
| The Economic Impact of Eight Research Universities on the Boston Region |
| The Implementation and Utilization of Stabilization Funds by Local Governments in Massachusetts |
| The Myth of Home Rule: Local Power in Greater Boston |
| The New Safety Net: How the Tax Code Helped Low-Income Working Families During the Early 2000s |
| The Potential Economic Impact of Increasing the Minimum Wage in Massachusetts |
| The Social and Economic Costs of Employee Misclassification in Construction |
| The Tax Revolt in Massachusetts: Revolution and Reason |
| Too Many Parents? Part A: Governance of Boston's Rose Kennedy Greenway and Part B: Making a Conservancy Work |
| Why Do Households Without Children Support Local Public Schools? |
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