US County Area Government Finance 2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017

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Cornell State and County Area Databases (U.S.)
Author
Xu, Yuanshuo
Warner, Mildred E.
Abstract

These files contain 140 local government finance variables for 3,137 county areas, derived from the Census of Governments Finance Statistics for the years 2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017. The dataset covers four categories: revenue, expenditure, indebtedness, and assets. Each county area total includes all general-purpose local governments (i.e., county, municipal, and township governments) and special-purpose local governments (i.e., special district and school district governments) within the county boundary as determined by the FIPS code. Using the county area as the unit of analysis provides a comprehensive view of local government finance within each county area. This database is intended to support researchers and practitioners in assessing local government revenue and expenditures.

Sponsorship
This project was supported by U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute for Food and Agriculture Grant #2021-67023-34437.
Date Issued
2025-08-24
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Xu, Yuanshuo and Warner, Mildred E. 2022. “Crowding Out Development: Fiscal Federalism after the Great Recession," Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 54(2), 311-329. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X211053643
Xu, Yuanshuo, and Warner, Mildred 2016. Does Devolution Crowd Out Development? A Spatial Analysis of US Local Government Fiscal Effort, Environment and Planning A, 48(5): 871–890. DOI: 10.1177/0308518X15622448
Xu, Yuanshuo and Mildred Warner, 2015, “Understanding Employment Growth in the Recession: The Geographic Diversity of State Rescaling,” Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, special issue on Local Growth Evolutions: Recession, Resilience and Recovery, 8(2): 359-377 https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsv001
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