Updated estimates of various measures of central city-suburban fiscal disparities
are presented for 1987, along with previously published ACIR estimates for selected
years. The estimates show that central city-suburban fiscal disparities have not
changed dramatically over the past 30 years. Cross-sectional regressions estimated
for four different years suggest that the explanations for the existence of fiscal
disparities have not changed over time.
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