How an elite university tries to manipulate public opinion by messing with headlines! Socialist central planners at work! May we call this another example of junk science.
Yale U also propagates centralization versus federalism of government by ignoring e.g. voting with your feet mobility!
Moreover, this study seems to be totally oblivious of important factors like population density/concentration per state and total income per state. Take Arizona as an example: This state has only two major metro areas, i.e. Phoenix and Tucson, the rest of the state is thinly populated.
The headlines are changing from "economic inequality." to "Economic Mobility" to "Children’s Economic Mobility". Very nice propaganda trick abusing children!
Caveat: I did not read the paper.
"A new Yale study finds that when state or county governments handle most of the taxing and spending instead of towns, low-income children often benefit."
From the abstract:
"Disparities in state and local government spending are key drivers of spatial inequality in social outcomes, including economic mobility. Yet beyond spending levels, the fiscal centralization of state and local governments—that is, the relative role of higher- versus lower-level governments in taxing, spending, and public employment—also differs substantially, traceable to place-specific founding circumstances and path dependent historical trajectories.
In this study, we ask, in more centralized fiscal systems, is there less spatial inequality in the economic mobility outcomes of low-income children? To answer this, we construct a novel Fiscal Centralization Index for each state and each county using data from the U.S. Census of Governments. We then use place-based estimates of intergenerational economic mobility, provided by Opportunity Insights, to measure cross-census-tract variation in the mobility outcomes of children within each state and each county.
We find that more centralized fiscal structures exhibit less spatial inequality in the economic mobility outcomes of low-income children, and this is driven by improving outcomes in lower-performing census tracts. Our findings motivate the fiscal sociology of place as a framework for revealing how historically conditioned fiscal systems are implicated in the production of place-based inequalities, with the potential to generate new insights and policy interventions."
Figure 1. Expenditure Centralization of U.S. States (2017) "This measure is simply the fraction of total state and local government spending performed by the state government."
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