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100			_9671 _aAlm, James
245		0	_aWhat drives road infrastructure spending? _c James Alm, Trey Dronyk-Trosper
260			_c2021
500			_aResumen.
504			_aBibliografía.
520			_aIt is widely believed that basic infrastructure in the United States has been seriously underfunded in recent years. We examine this broad issue by focusing on two specific questions. First, how has subnational government spending on infrastructure changed over the last half-century, focusing especially on transportation spending? Second, what factors have driven these spending changes? To answer these questions, we collect data on local, state, and combined state and local government spending on roads and other expenditure categories from 1957 to 2013. With these data, we first demonstrate that infrastructure spending has increased on average in real per capita terms across all states, even while it has declined significantly across all states as a percentage of government spending. Second, we also examine empirically several causal factors that help explain what has driven these changes in transportation spending over time, using several estimation methods and robustness tests. We find suggestive evidence that it is primarily changes in government spending on welfare programs that have driven these sizeable changes in transportation spending. Indeed, we calculate that, if state governments were spending the same percentage of their budgets on transportation in 2013 as they had been in 1957, then state government spending on transportation across all states would increase in total by an additional $133.5 billion in 2013, an amount equal to an additional $422 per capita.
650		4	_944787 _aGASTO PUBLICO
650		4	_948053 _aPOLITICA DE GASTO PUBLICO
650		4	_945090 _aINVERSIONES EN INFRAESTRUCTURA
650		4	_aESTADOS UNIDOS _942888
700			_965588 _aDronyk Trosper, Trey
773	0		_9166806 _oOP 1716/2021/4 _tPublic Budgeting and Finance _w(IEF)90019 _x0275-1100 _gv. 41, n. 4, Winter 2021, p. 20-49
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