Replication data for: Are State Governments Roadblocks to Federal Stimulus? Evidence on the Flypaper Effect of Highway Grants in the 2009 Recovery Act

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Sylvain Leduc; Daniel Wilson

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Project Citation:

Leduc, Sylvain, and Wilson, Daniel. Replication data for: Are State Governments Roadblocks to Federal Stimulus? Evidence on the Flypaper Effect of Highway Grants in the 2009 Recovery Act. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2017. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114624V1

Project Description

Summary: This paper examines how state governments adjusted spending in response to the large temporary increase in federal highway grants under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The mechanism used to apportion ARRA highway grants to states allows one to isolate exogenous changes in these grants. The results indicate that states increased highway spending over 2009 to 2011 more than dollar-for-dollar with the ARRA grants they received. Rent-seeking efforts are shown to help explain this result: states with more political contributions from the public works sector to the governor and state legislators tended to spend more out of their ARRA highway funds than other states.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      H54 National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures; Other Public Investment and Capital Stock
      H76 State and Local Government: Other Expenditure Categories
      R42 Transportation Economics: Government and Private Investment Analysis; Road Maintenance, Transportation Planning
      R53 Public Facility Location Analysis; Public Investment and Capital Stock

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