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Private Schooling and the Tiebout Hypothesis
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In this article, an alternative to both the capitalization and the "heterogeneity" tests of the Tiebout hypothesis is presented. By examining the implication that the greater the degree of public school choice in a metro area the lesser should be the reliance on private schooling, additional and novel support is found for the hypothesis.Abstract:
This article develops an alternative to both the capitalization and the “heterogeneity” tests of the Tiebout hypothesis. By examining the implication that the greater the degree of public school choice in a metro area the lesser should be the reliance on private schooling, additional and novel support is found for the hypothesis. Specifically, interjurisdictional choice linked to the number of school districts, and intrajurisdictional choice as reflected by the number of individual schools per district both were found to be important dimensions of school choice. That the Tiebout process is operational at the SMSA level of aggregation also suggests that the net fiscal gains from mobility are relevant to both central city and suburban dwellers.read more
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The Effects of Competition Between Schools on Educational Outcomes: A Review for the United States
Clive Belfield,Henry M. Levin +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors systematically review U.S. evidence from cross-sectional research on educational outcomes when schools must compete with each other and report that the positive gains from competition are modest in scope with respect to realistic changes in levels of competition.
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Competition and the quality of public schools
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the importance of different empirical specifications by presenting new evidence on the relationship between public school quality and competition from private schools, based on a unique data set that contains consistently defined high school graduation rates for the unified school districts in 18 states.
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The economics of educational choice
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors place the recent debate over choice in education into an economic framework that considers both market choice and public choice mechanisms with respect to their efficiencies in producing social and private benefits.
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Primary and secondary school choice among public and religious alternatives
Hamilton Lankford,James Wyckoff +1 more
TL;DR: This paper developed a conceptual framework for analyzing school choice decisions, evaluate past empirical research, and estimate an individual level model of choice using a unique data set, which suggests that parents are sensitive to the relative quality of school offerings, the tuition of religious schools, characteristics of other students in each alternative, and socioeconomic characteristics of the family.
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Private School Enrollment and Public School Performance
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