Ross Milton

Research

Publications

2025, Relaxing Electoral Constraints in Local Education Funding Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 44(4),p. 1394-1416 (with Michel Grosz)

Pre-publication version

2024, Backup Power: Public Implications of Private Substitutes for Electric Grid Reliability (with Paul Brehm and Sarah Johnston), Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

Pre-publication version

2019, “Optimal Fiscal Limits with Overrides” (with Stephen Coate), Journal of Public Economics, 174, 76-92

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Pre-publicaton version

Working Papers

Dynamic Fiscal Limits on Local Governments

Revise & Resubmit at National Tax Journal

Monthly Earnings Volatility and Household Pooling (with Martin Andresen, Andreas Kostøl, Corina Mommaerts, and Luisa Wallossek)

Conditionally accepted at Journal of Labor Economics
NBER Working Paper 34563; CESifo Working Paper 12323

Crowd-Out of Private Contributions to Local Public Goods: Evidence from School Tax Referenda

Work in Progress

“Intra-district Allocation of School Facilities Spending” (with Michel Grosz)

“The Volatility Penalty: Income Aggregation and Tax Policy” (with Corina Mommaerts)

“The Kansas Tax Experiment: Did Industries Benefit?” (with Jehu Mette)

Other Work

“University Endowment Growth: Assessing Policy Proposals” (with Ronald Ehrenberg), 2014. Cornell Higher Education Research Institute Working Paper, WP162