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A sample of cities from 43 states is used to analyze how changes in institutions influence municipal expenditures and employment. Per capita costs and municipal employment are not found to be significantly influenced by a shift from restrictive to non-restrictive annexation laws. Municipalities operating under municipal-determination annexation laws are not found to experience significantly different growth rates in costs and employment per resident from that of cities operating under annexation laws which imposed a greater number of barriers to annexation.
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Liner, G.H. Institutional constraints, annexation and municipal efficiency in the 1960s. Public Choice 79, 305–323 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01047775
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