Journal ArticleFuture Generation Computer Systems · April 1, 2022
In this paper we describe an architecture developed and prototyped in the course of the NSF-funded project called ImPACT—Infrastructure for Privacy-Assured CompuTations. This architecture addresses the common problems that arise from the need to securely s ...
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Chapter · January 20, 2020
Over 60 years ago, Charles Tiebout hypothesized that decentralized provision of public services (such as public schools) through local governments can result in efficient levels of such services (Tiebout, 1956). His key insight was that residential mobilit ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Encyclopedia of Education · 2010
Public and private schools operate in local economies in which households choose where to live based, in part, on access to schools and, in part, on features of local housing markets. These residential location choices, in turn, determine where children at ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2009
Public and private schools operate in local economies in which households choose where to live based, in part, on access to schools and, in part, on features of local housing markets. These residential location choices, in turn, determine where children at ...
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Chapter · December 1, 2006
Any system of primary and secondary schools involves explicit or implicit mechanisms that ration not only financial but also nonfinancial inputs into education production. This chapter focuses primarily on such mechanisms as they relate to the sorting of p ...
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Chapter · November 2006
Any system of primary and secondary schools involves explicit or implicit mechanisms that ration not only financial but also nonfinancial inputs into education production. This chapter focuses primarily on such mechanisms as they relate to the sorting of p ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2004
Fiscal decentralization is on the rise worldwide while barriers to factor and population mobility are declining. Greater decentralized government activity is therefore taking place in an economic environment characterized by increased competition for mobil ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Economic Review · February 1, 2003
A CGE model is used to analyze the impact of public school financing on private school attendance. The common perception that public school finance centralization will necessarily lead to greater private school attendance is not correct in such a model - e ...
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Journal ArticleFuture Generation Computer Systems · April 1, 2022
In this paper we describe an architecture developed and prototyped in the course of the NSF-funded project called ImPACT—Infrastructure for Privacy-Assured CompuTations. This architecture addresses the common problems that arise from the need to securely s ...
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Chapter · January 20, 2020
Over 60 years ago, Charles Tiebout hypothesized that decentralized provision of public services (such as public schools) through local governments can result in efficient levels of such services (Tiebout, 1956). His key insight was that residential mobilit ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Encyclopedia of Education · 2010
Public and private schools operate in local economies in which households choose where to live based, in part, on access to schools and, in part, on features of local housing markets. These residential location choices, in turn, determine where children at ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2009
Public and private schools operate in local economies in which households choose where to live based, in part, on access to schools and, in part, on features of local housing markets. These residential location choices, in turn, determine where children at ...
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Chapter · December 1, 2006
Any system of primary and secondary schools involves explicit or implicit mechanisms that ration not only financial but also nonfinancial inputs into education production. This chapter focuses primarily on such mechanisms as they relate to the sorting of p ...
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Chapter · November 2006
Any system of primary and secondary schools involves explicit or implicit mechanisms that ration not only financial but also nonfinancial inputs into education production. This chapter focuses primarily on such mechanisms as they relate to the sorting of p ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2004
Fiscal decentralization is on the rise worldwide while barriers to factor and population mobility are declining. Greater decentralized government activity is therefore taking place in an economic environment characterized by increased competition for mobil ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Economic Review · February 1, 2003
A CGE model is used to analyze the impact of public school financing on private school attendance. The common perception that public school finance centralization will necessarily lead to greater private school attendance is not correct in such a model - e ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Urban Economics · January 1, 2003
In a general equilibrium model that links school and housing markets, a purely public school system (regardless of the degree of centralization) results in substantially more spatial income segregation than a purely private system. However, the combination ...
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Journal ArticleNational Tax Journal · January 1, 2003
This paper synthesizes some initial lessons from an emerging school finance literature that employs computational structural models to investigate different policy proposals. The advantage of such models lies in their ability to fully trace out the general ...
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Scholarly Edition · 2002
Predicting the impact of school finance and school choice policies is
complicated in large part because of the multitude of household
choices that are simultaneously influenced within a general
equilibrium setting. Parents choose which neighborhoods ...
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Scholarly Edition · 2002
This paper develops a general equilibrium model of an economy that produces output using capital, labor and land as inputs. It further develops an approach that allows specific parameters in the model to be matched to data in such a way as to ensure that ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Political Economy · January 1, 2001
This paper models the fertility decision of individuals who differ in their wage rate and their intensity of preferences for rearing children, and whose utility of having a child out of wedlock depends on the level of "social approval" associated with doin ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Economic Review · January 1, 2000
This paper uses general-equilibrium simulations to explore the role of residential mobility in shaping the impact of different private-school voucher policies. The simulations are derived from a three-district model of low-, middle-, and high-income school ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Public Economic Theory · December 1, 1999
This paper introduces a general equilibrium model of public school finance that includes: (i) multiple school districts that finance local public schools via property taxes set by majority vote; (ii) multiple neighborhoods within school districts where eac ...
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Journal ArticleRegional Science and Urban Economics · January 1, 1998
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 90% of all homeowners in six school districts in Camden C ...
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Scholarly Edition · 1998
Lessons from the history of US school reforms and empirical
analysis have painted a picture of schools as complex institutions
producing a product that is influenced by the various choices made
by parents and school bureaucracies who respond to institut ...
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Journal ArticleEconomic Theory · January 1, 1997
This paper present the first fully closed general equilibrium model of hierarchical and local public goods economies with the following features: (i) multiple agent types who are endowed with both some amount of private good (income) and a house, who are m ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Political Economy · January 1, 1997
This paper addresses two long-standing positive questions in public finance: (i) Why is the property tax, despite widespread popular complaints against its fairness, the almost exclusive tax instrument used by local governments, and (ii) why do we consiste ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Public Economics · January 1, 1996
This paper introduces a theoretical and a calibrated computable general equilibrium model of intergovernmental relations in which heterogeneous agents (i) are endowed with income and houses, (ii) are fully mobile between multiple jurisdictions, and (iii) v ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Tax and Public Finance · January 1, 1996
This paper attempts to make an argument for the feasibility and usefulness of a computable general equilibrium approach to studying fiscal federalism and local public finance. It begins by presenting a general model of fiscal federalism that has at its bas ...
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Journal ArticleSouthern Economic Journal · January 1, 1990
Much of the literature on the racial wage gap in the US has focused on the importance of differences in human capital. The racial difference in school quality has been large but has diminished over time. Research indicates that in the years from 1920 to 19 ...
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