Income inequality, the median voter, and the support for public education
By: Sean Corcoran, William N. Evans
Contributors: Evans, William N.; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16097; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16097.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: "Using a panel of U.S.  school districts spanning 1970 - 2000, we examine the relationship between income inequality and fiscal support for public education.  In contrast with recent theoretical and empirical work suggesting a negative relationship between inequality and public spending, we find results consistent with a median voter model, in which inequality that reduces the median voter's tax share induces higher local spending on public education.  We estimate that 12 to 22 percent of the increase in local school spending over this period is attributable to rising inequality"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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