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This is a preprint of a paper that appeared in the Journal of Public Economics in 1988, vol 35, pp289-307.

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ABSTRACT:
This paper conducts an empirical test of whether local governments spend more or less than a Pareto optimal amount on local public goods. Our procedure is to check whether the Samuelson first order conditions ) for efficient provision of public goods are satisfied.

SUGGESTED CITATION:
Ted Bergstrom, Judith Roberts, Daniel Rubinfeld, and Perry Shapiro , "A Test for Efficiency in the Supply of Public Goods" (March 18, 1988). Department of Economics, UCSB. Ted Bergstrom. Paper 1988B.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/ucsbecon/bergstrom/1988B