Household location and schools in metropolitan areas with heterogeneous suburbs; tiebout, alonso, and government policy
By: Eric A. Hanushek, Kuzey Yilmaz
Contributors: Yilmaz, Kuzey; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 15915; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15915.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: "An important element in considering school finance policies is that households are not passive but instead respond to policies.  Household behavior is especially important in considering how households affect the spatial structure of metropolitan areas where different jurisdictions incorporate bundles of advantages and disadvantages.  This paper adds richness to existing urban models by incorporating multiple workplace locations, alternative public services by jurisdiction (school qualities), and voter- determined school expenditure.  In our general equilibrium model of residential location and community choice, households base optimizing decisions on commuting costs, school quality, and land rents.  The resulting equilibrium has heterogeneous communities in terms of income and tastes for schools.  This basic model is used to analyze a series of conventional policy experiments, including school district consolidation and district power utilization.  The important conclusion within our range of simulations is that welfare falls for all families with the restrictions on choice that are implied by these approaches"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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