Ronald D Kneebone
Biographic Data
| ID | 6391237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronald D Kneebone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronald D |
| FAMILY NAME | Kneebone |
| SIGNATURE | KNEEBONE R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4290-1240 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The impact of Housing First participation on police-reported crime and crime severity
Housing First (HF) addresses chronic homelessness by admitting individuals into permanent shelter regardless of their situation. Studies using self-reported data suggest that HF can potentially decrease justice system use, but they are limited by inaccurate measurement of police contacts. This study uses administrative data from police to measure the change in number of police interactions, change in average crime weight (or importance of crime),…
Disability Considerations for Measuring Poverty in Canada Using the Market Basket Measure
Persons with disability (PWD) in Canada experience disproportionately high poverty rates. Poverty measures are often used to benchmark income assistance levels and social policies across Canada. The Market Basket Measure (MBM) is the official poverty measure in Canada that accounts for differences in family composition and geography. It does not, however, account for cost-incurring factors like disabilities, despite the evidence of differences in…
Canadian Provincial Government Budget Data, 1980/81 to 2013/14
Statistics Canada has stopped publishing data on Canadian provincial government budgets, leaving researchers without the ability to examine the fiscal policy choices of those governments. We present a data set describing the budgets of each of the ten provinces spanning the period 1980/81 to 2013/14. Our data are similar to those published in the Department of Finance's Fiscal Reference Tables but provide a finer breakdown of revenue and expendit…
Fiscal Retrenchment and Social Assistance in Canada
This paper exploits the fact that a confluence of events in the mid-1990s caused Canadian provincial governments to re-examine the design of their social-assistance programs. Three provinces in particular—Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario—chose to introduce substantial changes to the administrative procedures by which applicants applied to gain, and maintain, access to social assistance. We identify the relative contributions of economic inf…
Socialists, Populists, Resources, and the Divergent Development of Alberta and Saskatchewan
Canada's federal government established the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta in 1905, making them approximately equal in area, population, and economy. Roughly one hundred years later, Alberta has three times the population of Saskatchewan and a gross domestic product (GDP) that is more than four times greater. The creation of the border represents a “natural experiment” that allows us to assess the relative importance of institutions versus…
Minding the Public Purse
MacKinnon's tenure as minister of finance coincided with a period of fiscal crisis in Saskatchewan. Two Progressive Conservative governments under Grant Devine had from 1982 to 1991 accumulated large amounts of debt and had committed the Government of Saskatchewan to participating in several expensive and risky megaprojects. In conjunction with a sluggish economy these factors combined to seriously stress the finances of the province. By 1993, th…
Electoral and Partisan Cycles in Fiscal Policy
The Characteristics of Fiscal Policy in Canada
Dans cet article, nous utilisons une methodologie qui permet de faire la distinction entre les changements discretionnaires et non-discretionnaires dans les politiques fiscales provinciales et federales. Nous trouvons des variations intertemporelles et interjuridictionnelles importantes dans les politiques discretionnaires des gouvernements au Canada. Cet article revele une asymetrie importante dans la composition des positions fiscales discretio…
Deficits and Debt in Canada
This paper reviews the recent history of federal and provincial deficits and debt in Canada with the purpose of investigating whether rules of behaviour need to be imposed on fiscal authorities as a way of controlling the growth of these deficits and debt. The evidence suggests that the need for rules governing provincial fiscal behaviour is weak because financial markets already impose such rules and that they have been effective at controlling …
Fiscal Retrenchment and Social Assistance in Canada
This paper exploits the fact that a confluence of events in the mid-1990s caused Canadian provincial governments to re-examine the design of their social-assistance programs. Three provinces in particular—Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario—chose to introduce substantial changes to the administrative procedures by which applicants applied to gain, and maintain, access to social assistance. We identify the relative contributions of economic inf…
Canadian Provincial Government Budget Data, 1980/81 to 2013/14
Statistics Canada has stopped publishing data on Canadian provincial government budgets, leaving researchers without the ability to examine the fiscal policy choices of those governments. We present a data set describing the budgets of each of the ten provinces spanning the period 1980/81 to 2013/14. Our data are similar to those published in the Department of Finance's Fiscal Reference Tables but provide a finer breakdown of revenue and expendit…
Socialists, Populists, Resources, and the Divergent Development of Alberta and Saskatchewan
Canada's federal government established the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta in 1905, making them approximately equal in area, population, and economy. Roughly one hundred years later, Alberta has three times the population of Saskatchewan and a gross domestic product (GDP) that is more than four times greater. The creation of the border represents a “natural experiment” that allows us to assess the relative importance of institutions versus…
Minding the Public Purse
MacKinnon's tenure as minister of finance coincided with a period of fiscal crisis in Saskatchewan. Two Progressive Conservative governments under Grant Devine had from 1982 to 1991 accumulated large amounts of debt and had committed the Government of Saskatchewan to participating in several expensive and risky megaprojects. In conjunction with a sluggish economy these factors combined to seriously stress the finances of the province. By 1993, th…
Deficits and Debt in Canada
This paper reviews the recent history of federal and provincial deficits and debt in Canada with the purpose of investigating whether rules of behaviour need to be imposed on fiscal authorities as a way of controlling the growth of these deficits and debt. The evidence suggests that the need for rules governing provincial fiscal behaviour is weak because financial markets already impose such rules and that they have been effective at controlling …
The Characteristics of Fiscal Policy in Canada
Dans cet article, nous utilisons une methodologie qui permet de faire la distinction entre les changements discretionnaires et non-discretionnaires dans les politiques fiscales provinciales et federales. Nous trouvons des variations intertemporelles et interjuridictionnelles importantes dans les politiques discretionnaires des gouvernements au Canada. Cet article revele une asymetrie importante dans la composition des positions fiscales discretio…
Deficits and Debt in Canada
This paper reviews the recent history of federal and provincial deficits and debt in Canada with the purpose of investigating whether rules of behaviour need to be imposed on fiscal authorities as a way of controlling the growth of these deficits and debt. The evidence suggests that the need for rules governing provincial fiscal behaviour is weak because financial markets already impose such rules and that they have been effective at controlling …
The Characteristics of Fiscal Policy in Canada
Dans cet article, nous utilisons une methodologie qui permet de faire la distinction entre les changements discretionnaires et non-discretionnaires dans les politiques fiscales provinciales et federales. Nous trouvons des variations intertemporelles et interjuridictionnelles importantes dans les politiques discretionnaires des gouvernements au Canada. Cet article revele une asymetrie importante dans la composition des positions fiscales discretio…
Electoral and Partisan Cycles in Fiscal Policy
Minding the Public Purse
MacKinnon's tenure as minister of finance coincided with a period of fiscal crisis in Saskatchewan. Two Progressive Conservative governments under Grant Devine had from 1982 to 1991 accumulated large amounts of debt and had committed the Government of Saskatchewan to participating in several expensive and risky megaprojects. In conjunction with a sluggish economy these factors combined to seriously stress the finances of the province. By 1993, th…
Socialists, Populists, Resources, and the Divergent Development of Alberta and Saskatchewan
Canada's federal government established the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta in 1905, making them approximately equal in area, population, and economy. Roughly one hundred years later, Alberta has three times the population of Saskatchewan and a gross domestic product (GDP) that is more than four times greater. The creation of the border represents a “natural experiment” that allows us to assess the relative importance of institutions versus…
Fiscal Retrenchment and Social Assistance in Canada
This paper exploits the fact that a confluence of events in the mid-1990s caused Canadian provincial governments to re-examine the design of their social-assistance programs. Three provinces in particular—Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario—chose to introduce substantial changes to the administrative procedures by which applicants applied to gain, and maintain, access to social assistance. We identify the relative contributions of economic inf…
Canadian Provincial Government Budget Data, 1980/81 to 2013/14
Statistics Canada has stopped publishing data on Canadian provincial government budgets, leaving researchers without the ability to examine the fiscal policy choices of those governments. We present a data set describing the budgets of each of the ten provinces spanning the period 1980/81 to 2013/14. Our data are similar to those published in the Department of Finance's Fiscal Reference Tables but provide a finer breakdown of revenue and expendit…
Disability Considerations for Measuring Poverty in Canada Using the Market Basket Measure
Persons with disability (PWD) in Canada experience disproportionately high poverty rates. Poverty measures are often used to benchmark income assistance levels and social policies across Canada. The Market Basket Measure (MBM) is the official poverty measure in Canada that accounts for differences in family composition and geography. It does not, however, account for cost-incurring factors like disabilities, despite the evidence of differences in…
The impact of Housing First participation on police-reported crime and crime severity
Housing First (HF) addresses chronic homelessness by admitting individuals into permanent shelter regardless of their situation. Studies using self-reported data suggest that HF can potentially decrease justice system use, but they are limited by inaccurate measurement of police contacts. This study uses administrative data from police to measure the change in number of police interactions, change in average crime weight (or importance of crime),…
Economics (8 works) · Political science (5 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Canadian Policy and Governance (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy (3 works) · Fiscal policy (3 works) · Geography (3 works)