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Thomas J. Nechyba CV

Professor of Economics
Economics
Box 90097, Department of Economics, Durham, NC 27708
318 Social Science Building, Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected Publications


ImPACT: A networked service architecture for safe sharing of restricted data

Journal Article Future 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 ... Full text Cite

Tiebout sorting and competition

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 ... Full text Cite

Tiebout sorting and competition

Journal Article International 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 ... Full text Cite

Tiebout Sorting and Competition

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 ... Full text Cite

Mobilizing the Private Sector in the United States: A Theoretical Overview

Conference SCHOOL CHOICE INTERNATIONAL: EXPLORING PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS · January 1, 2009 Link to item Cite

Chapter 22 Income and Peer Quality Sorting in Public and Private Schools

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 ... Full text Cite

Income and Peer Quality Sorting in Public and Private Schools

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 ... Cite

School Finance, School Choice and Residential Segregation

Journal Article CESifo Economic Studies · 2005 Cite

Comment: Land taxation in New York City: A general equilibrium analysis

Journal Article City Taxes, City Spending: Essays in Honor of Dick Netzer · December 1, 2004 Full text Cite

School Competition and School Quality in the U.S.

Journal Article CESifo DICE Report - Journal of Institutional Comparison · December 2004 Cite

Urban Sprawl

Journal Article Journal of Economic Perspectives · October 2004 Cite

IQ and the wealth of nations.

Journal Article JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE · March 1, 2004 Link to item Cite

Chapter 55 Fiscal decentralization

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 ... Full text Cite

Prospects for Achieving Equity or Adequacy in Education: The Limits of State Aid in General Equilibrium

Conference HELPING CHILDREN LEFT BEHIND: STATE AID AND THE PURSUIT OF EDUCATIONAL EQUITY · January 1, 2004 Link to item Cite

Handbook of public economics, volume 3.

Other JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE · December 1, 2003 Link to item Cite

Public School Finance and Urban School Policy: General Versus Partial Equilibrium Analysis

Journal Article Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs · October 2003 Cite

Centralization, fiscal federalism, and private school attendance

Journal Article International 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 ... Full text Cite

ImPACT: A networked service architecture for safe sharing of restricted data

Journal Article Future 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 ... Full text Cite

Tiebout sorting and competition

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 ... Full text Cite

Tiebout sorting and competition

Journal Article International 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 ... Full text Cite

Tiebout Sorting and Competition

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 ... Full text Cite

Mobilizing the Private Sector in the United States: A Theoretical Overview

Conference SCHOOL CHOICE INTERNATIONAL: EXPLORING PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS · January 1, 2009 Link to item Cite

Chapter 22 Income and Peer Quality Sorting in Public and Private Schools

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 ... Full text Cite

Income and Peer Quality Sorting in Public and Private Schools

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 ... Cite

School Finance, School Choice and Residential Segregation

Journal Article CESifo Economic Studies · 2005 Cite

Comment: Land taxation in New York City: A general equilibrium analysis

Journal Article City Taxes, City Spending: Essays in Honor of Dick Netzer · December 1, 2004 Full text Cite

School Competition and School Quality in the U.S.

Journal Article CESifo DICE Report - Journal of Institutional Comparison · December 2004 Cite

Urban Sprawl

Journal Article Journal of Economic Perspectives · October 2004 Cite

IQ and the wealth of nations.

Journal Article JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE · March 1, 2004 Link to item Cite

Chapter 55 Fiscal decentralization

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 ... Full text Cite

Prospects for Achieving Equity or Adequacy in Education: The Limits of State Aid in General Equilibrium

Conference HELPING CHILDREN LEFT BEHIND: STATE AID AND THE PURSUIT OF EDUCATIONAL EQUITY · January 1, 2004 Link to item Cite

Handbook of public economics, volume 3.

Other JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE · December 1, 2003 Link to item Cite

Public School Finance and Urban School Policy: General Versus Partial Equilibrium Analysis

Journal Article Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs · October 2003 Cite

Centralization, fiscal federalism, and private school attendance

Journal Article International 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 ... Full text Cite

School finance, spatial income segregation, and the nature of communities

Journal Article Journal 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 ... Full text Cite

What can be (and what has been) learned from general equilibrium simulation models of school finance?

Journal Article National 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 ... Full text Cite

Introducing School Choice into Multi-District Public School Systems

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 ... Cite

Prospects for Land Rent Taxes in State and Local Tax Reforms

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 ... Cite

Social approval, values, and AFDC: A reexamination of the illegitimacy debate

Journal Article Journal 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 ... Full text Cite

The benefit view and the new view - Where do we stand, twenty-five years into the debate?

Conference PROPERTY TAXATION AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE · January 1, 2001 Link to item Cite

Social welfare and individual responsibility

Journal Article ECONOMICS AND PHILOSOPHY · October 1, 2000 Link to item Cite

Mobility, targeting, and private-school vouchers

Journal Article American 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 ... Full text Open Access Cite

School finance induced migration and stratification patterns: The impact of private school vouchers

Journal Article Journal 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 ... Full text Cite

Community choice and local public services: A discrete choice approach

Journal Article Regional 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 ... Full text Cite

The Economics of Education: Vouchers and Peer Group Effects

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 ... Cite

Public school finance and vouchers in a general equilibrium Tiebout world

Conference 90TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON TAXATION, PROCEEDINGS · January 1, 1998 Link to item Cite

Competitive governments: An economic theory of politics and public finance - Breton,A

Journal Article JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE · December 1, 1997 Link to item Cite

Existence of equilibrium and stratification in local and hierarchical Tiebout economies with property taxes and voting

Journal Article Economic 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 ... Full text Cite

Local property and state income taxes: The role of interjurisdictional competition and collusion

Journal Article Journal 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 ... Full text Open Access Cite

A computable general equilibrium model of intergovernmental aid

Journal Article Journal 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 ... Full text Cite

Fiscal Federalism and Local Public Finance: A Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Framework

Journal Article International 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 ... Full text Cite

Fiscal federalism and local public finance: A general equilibrium approach with voting

Conference 1994 PROCEEDINGS OF THE EIGHTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON TAXATION · January 1, 1995 Link to item Cite

The Southern wage gap, human capital and the quality of education

Journal Article Southern 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 ... Full text Cite