Do federal spending and tax policies build cities or promote sprawl?

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 361-378

  Persky, Joseph ^a   Kurban, Haydar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Federal funds; Federal subsidies; Urban sprawl

Indexed keywords

PUBLIC SPENDING; RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT; SUBSIDY SYSTEM; SUBURBAN AREA; TAX SYSTEM;

CHICAGO; ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038381559     PISSN: 01660462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-0462(02)00033-9     Document Type: Article

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