Does Competition Among Public Schools Benefit Students and Taxpayers?
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- 1 December 2000
- journal article
- Published by American Economic Association in American Economic Review
- Vol. 90 (5) , 1209-1238
- https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.90.5.1209
Abstract
Tiebout choice among districts is the most powerful market force in American public education. Naive estimates of its effects are biased by endogenous district formation. I derive instruments from the natural boundaries in a metropolitan area. My results suggest that metropolitan areas with greater Tiebout choice have more productive public schools and less private schooling. Little of the effect of Tiebout choice works through its effect on household sorting. This finding may be explained by another finding: students are equally segregated by school in metropolitan areas with greater and lesser degrees of Tiebout choice among districts. (JEL H70, I20)Keywords
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