The Government Finance Database: A Common Resource for Quantitative Research in Public Financial Analysis

Quantitative public financial management research focused on local governments is limited by the absence of a common database for empirical analysis. While the U.S. Census Bureau distributes government finance data that some scholars have utilized, the arduous process of collecting, interpreting, an...

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Autores principales: Pierson, Kawika, Hand, Michael L., Thompson, Fred
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4479543/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26107821
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0130119
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description Quantitative public financial management research focused on local governments is limited by the absence of a common database for empirical analysis. While the U.S. Census Bureau distributes government finance data that some scholars have utilized, the arduous process of collecting, interpreting, and organizing the data has led its adoption to be prohibitive and inconsistent. In this article we offer a single, coherent resource that contains all of the government financial data from 1967-2012, uses easy to understand natural-language variable names, and will be extended when new data is available.
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spelling pubmed-44795432015-06-29 The Government Finance Database: A Common Resource for Quantitative Research in Public Financial Analysis Pierson, Kawika Hand, Michael L. Thompson, Fred PLoS One Research Article Quantitative public financial management research focused on local governments is limited by the absence of a common database for empirical analysis. While the U.S. Census Bureau distributes government finance data that some scholars have utilized, the arduous process of collecting, interpreting, and organizing the data has led its adoption to be prohibitive and inconsistent. In this article we offer a single, coherent resource that contains all of the government financial data from 1967-2012, uses easy to understand natural-language variable names, and will be extended when new data is available. Public Library of Science 2015-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4479543/ /pubmed/26107821 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0130119 Text en © 2015 Pierson et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4479543/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26107821
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0130119
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