Author | Spencer, Bruce D. author |
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Title | Benefit-Cost Analysis of Data Used to Allocate Funds [electronic resource] / by Bruce D. Spencer |
Imprint | New York, NY : Springer New York, 1980 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6099-8 |
Descript | 296 p. online resource |
0 Introduction -- 1 Loss Function and Benefit Measurement -- ยง1.0 Introduction -- 1.1 Utility and Social Welfare -- 1.2 Equity -- 1.3 A Simple Loss Function -- Errors in Allocation -- 1.4 Estimating the Parameters of the Loss Function L(f?,??) for GRS -- 1.5 Fisher-Consistency and Other Properties of the Loss Function L(f?,??) -- 1.6 More General Loss Functions: LH(f?,??) , Lw(f?,??) -- 1.7 Exponential Loss Functions -- 2 The Delta Method -- ยง2.0 Outline -- 2.1 Notation -- 2.2 Description of the Delta Method -- 2.3 Applicability of the Delta Method to GRS -- 2.4 Application of the Delta Method to Calculating Expected Loss -- 3 Data Used in General Revenue Sharing -- ยง3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Population (state level) -- 3.3 Urbanized Population -- 3.4 Population (substate level) -- 3.5 Total Money Income, Per Capita Income (state level) -- 3.6 Per Capita Income (substate level) -- 3.7 Personal Income -- 3.8 Net State and Local Taxes -- 3.9 State Individual Income Taxes -- 3.10 Federal Individual Income Tax Liabilities -- 3.11 Income Tax Amount (state level) -- 3.12 Adjusted Taxes (substate level) -- 3.13 Intergovernmental Transfers (substate level) -- 3.14 Interrelationships Among State- level Data Elements -- 3.15 Interrelationships Among Substate Data Elements -- 3.16 Outline-Symbol Glossary -- 4 Interstate Allocation in GRS ยง4.1 Introduction 151 -- 4.2 Notation -- 4.3 Conclusions -- 4.4 Assumptions and Degrees of Approximation -- 4.5 Derivations and Proofs -- 5 Intrastate Allocations in GRS -- ยง5.1 Overview -- 5.2 Determination of Substate Allocations -- 5.3 Notation -- 5.4 Assumptions and Degrees of Approximations -- 5.5 Conclusions -- 6 Computations and Analyses -- ยง6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Errors in Allocation to States -- 6.3 Substate Errors in Allocation -- 6.4 Benefit Analysis -- 6.5 Summary of Findings -- 7 Policy Perspectives and Recommendations -- ยง7.0 Introduction and Summary -- 7.1 Redundancy cf Allocation Formulas -- 7.2 Data Burdens Imposed by Legislation -- 7.3 Minimizing Large Errors in Allocation -- 7.4 Uniform Biases, Non-uniform Variances -- 7.5 Adjusting for Undercoverage or Other Suspected Biases -- 7.6 Improving the Coverage of the Decennial Census -- 7.7 State Errors vs. Substate Errors -- 7.8 Allocation Formulas as Approximations -- 7.9 Other Uses of Data -- Appendix A Tables of Biases in Data -- Appendix B Determination of General Revenue Sharing Allocations -- Technical Appendix