America’s Ailing Cities: Fiscal Health and the Design of Urban Policy – Table of Contents

by Helen F. Ladd and John Yinger

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments ix
Preface xi
PART I Fiscal Health, Economic Health, and Resident Income  
Chapter 1 National Trends and the Fiscal Health of Cities 3
Chapter 2 Economic Health and Economic Structure 17
Appendix: Sources of Employment and Payroll Data 36
PART II Fiscal Health Assuming Uniform Fiscal Institutions  
Chapter 3 Revenue-Raising Capacity 45
Appendix: Measuring Revenue-Raising Capacity and Tax Exporting 69
Chapter 4 Public Service Costs and Standardized Expenditure Need 78
Appendix: Calculating Indexes of Public Service Costs and Standardized Expenditure Need 98
Chapter 5 Standardized Fiscal Health 102
Appendix: Calculating Standardized Fiscal Health 120
PART III Fiscal Institutions and Actual Fiscal Health  
Chapter 6 The Availability and Form of Taxes 125
Appendix:  Accounting for Actual Taxes 142
Chapter 7 Sharing the Capacity with Overlying Jurisdictions 145
Appendix: Accounting for Overlying Jurisdictions 163
Chapter 8 Services Responsibilities 167
Appendix: Calculating Service Responsibilities 184
Chapter 9 Actual Fiscal Health 190
Appendix: Calculating Actual Fiscal Health 208
PART IV The Roles of City, State, and Federal Governments  
Chapter 10 Spending Decisions by Central City Governments 215
Appendix: The Determinants of Spending by Central Cities 232
Chapter 11 State and Federal Assistance to Central Cities 252
Appendix Calculating State Assistance to Central Cities 281
Chapter 12 Rethinking State and Federal Policy Toward Central Cities 286
References 315
Author Index 325
Subject Index 327