作者: William D. Berry , Richard C. Fording , Russell L. Hanson
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摘要: An enormous amount of research on state politics and policy relies monetary variables. Such variables are affected by differences in the purchasing power a dollar over time across states, but lack information about geographic variation costs goods services has kept social scientists from taking these into account. We remove this obstacle constructing an annual cost living index for each continental American 1960 to 1995. The constitutes deflator suitable cross-sectional, time-series, pooled research. After establishing reliability validity our using battery diagnostic tests, we illustrate importance deflating examining two that often used