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This paper examines the explanatory power of linear and nonlinear expenditure functions in assessing conditional grants to local governments in Ontario, Canada. The results are similar in both cases with a slightly better performance from the linear model. The results also suggest that such grants had a positive impact on local spending.
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D. A. L. Auld (1976) studied this question.
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