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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2004 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Stephen Coate is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within economics and social sciences, focusing particularly on fiscal policy, local government finance, and education.

Coate's recent published work includes:

  • Community development by public wealth accumulation (2020) in the Journal of Urban Economics
  • Financing local public projects (2023) in Regional Science and Urban Economics
  • Community development with externalities and corrective taxation (2021) in the Journal of Economic Geography
  • An efficiency case for equity-based school priorities (2025) in the Journal of Public Economics

Their frequent coauthors include Levon Barseghyan and Damon Clark. Barseghyan has collaborated on three publications, while Clark has coauthored one recent paper.

Coate's primary fields of study are Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Social Sciences. The main subfields covered in their work include Economics and Econometrics, Education, Sociology and Political Science, Accounting, and Political Science and International Relations.

Their research addresses a variety of topics, such as:

  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Housing Market and Economics
  • Economic Theories and Models
  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
  • Local Government Finance and Decentralization
  • School Choice and Performance

Stephen Coate has published work in several journals, including the Journal of Urban Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Economic Geography, and the Journal of Public Economics, each representing different aspects of their research interests.

Recognition of Coate's professional contributions includes fellowship awards: Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017) and Fellows of the Econometric Society (2004).

Best Publications

  • An Economic Model of Representative Democracy

    Timothy Besley;Stephen Coate

  • Group lending, repayment incentives and social collateral

    Timothy Besley;Stephen Coate

  • Centralized versus decentralized provision of local public goods: a political economy approach

    Timothy Besley;Stephen Coate

  • Will Affirmative-Action Policies Eliminate Negative Stereotypes?

    Stephen Coate;Glenn C. Loury

  • THE ECONOMICS OF ROTATING SAVINGS AND CREDIT ASSOCIATIONS

    Timothy Besley;Stephen Coate;Glenn Loury

  • Reciprocity without commitment: Characterization and performance of informal insurance arrangements

    Stephen Coate;Martin Ravallion

  • Market Provision of Broadcasting: A Welfare Analysis ∗

    Simon P. Anderson;Stephen Coate

  • On the Form of Transfers to Special Interests

    Stephen Coate;Stephen Morris

  • Workfare versus Welfare Incentive Arguments for Work Requirements in Poverty-Alleviation Programs

    Timothy Besley;Stephen Coate

  • The economics of rotating savings and credit associations

    Timothy Besley;Stephen Coate;Glenn C. Loury

  • ELECTED VERSUS APPOINTED REGULATORS: THEORY AND EVIDENCE

    Timothy Besley;Stephen Coate

  • Sources of Inefficiency in a Representative Democracy: A Dynamic Analysis

    Timothy Besley;Stephen Coate

  • Public Provision of Private Goods and the Redistribution of Income

    Timothy Besley;Stephen Coate

  • A dynamic theory of public spending, taxation and debt

    Marco Battaglini;Stephen Coate

  • Altruism, the Samaritan's dilemma, and government transfer policy

    Stephen Coate

  • A Group Rule-Utilitarian Approach to Voter Turnout: Theory and Evidence

    Stephen Coate;Michael Conlin

  • Understanding welfare stigma: Taxpayer resentment and statistical discrimination

    Timothy Besley;Stephen Coate

  • Pareto-Improving Campaign Finance Policy

    Stephen Coate

  • Lobbying and welfare in a representative democracy

    Timothy Besley;Stephen Coate

  • POLITICAL COMPETITION WITH CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS AND INFORMATIVE ADVERTISING

    Stephen Coate

  • The Design of Income Maintenance Programmes

    Timothy Besley;Stephen Coate

  • Rotating Savings and Credit Associations, Credit Markets and Efficiency

    Timothy Besley;Stephen Coate;Glenn Loury

  • Inefficiency in Legislative Policymaking: A Dynamic Analysis

    Marco Battaglini;Stephen Coate

  • Antidiscrimination enforcement and the problem of patronization

    Glenn Loury;Stephen Coate

  • LABOR MARKET DISCRIMINATION, IMPERFECT INFORMATION AND SELF EMPLOYMENT

    Stephen Coate;Sharon Tennyson

  • Market Provision of Public Goods: The Case of Broadcasting

    Simon P. Anderson;Stephen Coate

  • Socially Optimal Districting: A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration

    Stephen Coate;Brian Knight

  • Will Affirmative Action Policies Eliminate Negative Stereotypes

    Stephen Coate;Glenn Loury

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy Besley
Timothy Besley London School of Economics and Political Science
Richard J. Zeckhauser
Richard J. Zeckhauser Harvard University
Simon P. Anderson
Simon P. Anderson University of Virginia
Martin Ravallion
Martin Ravallion Georgetown University
Thomas R. Palfrey
Thomas R. Palfrey California Institute of Technology
David P. Baron
David P. Baron Stanford University
Raquel Fernandez
Raquel Fernandez New York University
Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik Harvard University
John Ferejohn
John Ferejohn New York University

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