The illusion of fiscal illusion: Unstick
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Elizabeth Becker
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Article
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1996
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Springer US
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English
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Recognizing that it is difficult to prove a negative, this paper marshals evidence in support of the hypothesis that the widely documented flypaper effect of federal grants to state and local governments is purely a statistical artifact. A review of previous studies and a monte carlo investigation s