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Disruption versus Tiebout Improvement : The Costs and Benefits of Switching Schools

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2001

experience a great deal of turnover. Many researchers, teachers, and administrators argue that mobility harms students … Tiebout type moves to procure better school quality. Empirical research on mobility has yielded inconclusive results, no doubt … in part because of small sample sizes and the difficulty of separating mobility effects from other confounding factors …

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Expenditure Competition

Gordon, Roger H. - 2001

Given the temptation on government officials to use some of their budget for 'perks,' residents face the problem of inducing officials to reduce such 'waste.' The threat to vote out of office officials who perform poorly is one possible response. In this paper, we explore the effect that...

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Exit, Voice or Loyalty? An Investigation into Mandated Portability of Front-Loaded Private Health Plans

Atal, Juan Pablo - 2017

We study theoretically and empirically how consumers in an individual private long-term health insurance market with front-loaded contracts respond to newly mandated portability requirements of their old-age provisions. To foster competition, effective 2009, German legislature made the...

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Exit, Tweets and Loyalty

Gans, Joshua S. - 2017

Hirschman's Exit, Voice, and Loyalty highlights the role of "voice" in disciplining firms for low quality. We develop a formal model of voice as a relational contact between firms and consumers and show that voice is more likely to emerge in concentrated markets. We test this model using data on...

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Making Democracy Work : Culture, Social Capital and Elections in China

Miquel, Gerard Padró i - 2015

This paper aims to show that culture is an important determinant of the effectiveness of formal democratic institutions, such as elections. We collect new data to document the presence of voluntary and social organizations and the history of electoral reforms in Chinese villages. We use the...

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Using Market Valuation to Assess Public School Spending

Barrow, Lisa - 2002

In this paper we use a 'market-based' approach to examine whether increased school expenditures are valued by potential residents and whether the current level of public school provision is inefficient. We do so by employing an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the effect of state...

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Community Choice and Local Public Services : A Discrete Choice Approach

Nechyba, Thomas J. - 1997

This paper uses a discrete choice approach to estimate the impact of local fiscal and other variables on individual community choices. It employs a combination of a unique micro data set composed of ninety percent of all homeowners in six school districts in Camden County, New Jersey and...

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Local Property and State Income Taxes : The Role of Interjurisdictional Competition and Collusion

Nechyba, Thomas J. - 1996

This paper attempts to address two long standing questions in Public Finance: (i) why is the property tax, despite popular complaints about its fairness, the almost exclusive tax instrument used by local governments, and (ii) why do we consistently observe higher levels of governments undermine...

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The Geography of Linguistic Diversity and the Provision of Public Goods

Desmet, Klaus - 2018

This paper analyzes the importance of local interaction between individuals of different linguistic groups for the provision of public goods at the national level. The micro-founded conceptual framework we develop predicts that a country's public goods (i) decrease in its overall linguistic...

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Residential Segregation in General Equilibrium

Bayer, Patrick - 2005

Black households in the United States with high levels of income and education (SES) typically face a stark tradeoff when deciding where to live. They can choose neighborhoods with high levels of public goods or a high proportion of blacks, but very few neighborhoods combine both, a fact we...

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