Covid-19 federal assistance to state and local governments and its consequences

Across four major Covid-19 relief bills, the US federal government allocated about $900 billion to state and local governments. This column exploits the fact that allocations of aid were more generous in states more favourably represented in Congress to analyse the consequences of this federal assistance. It finds modest positive effects of federal aid on local and state

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