Individual production, community characteristics and the provision of local public services

Schwartz, A.E.
Journal of Public Economics, Feb 93, Vol. 50 Issue 2, p277, 13p.

Suggests a method of indexing local public services using community characteristics to allow the isolation of movements in prices and quantities from expenditure data. Differences in individual production functions for commodities where both private goods and community characteristics are inputs of production; Impact of government activities on community characteristics and production.