Does Competition Among Public Schools Benefit Students and Taxpayers?
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23328307 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Caroline M Hoxby (Harvard University), Caroline Hoxby (0000-0001-6988-8413, Harvard University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1209-1238 |
| Publication date | 2000-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Economic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8282 • E-ISSN: 1944-7981 |
| Publisher | American Economic Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1257/aer.90.5.1209 |
| OpenAlex | W3124133911 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 182 |
| References cited | 12 |
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)
Biology · Competition (biology) · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Labour economics · Metropolitan area · Microeconomics · Public economics · Public education · Public good · School choice · Sorting · Tiebout model · Ecology · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Housing Market and Economics · Local Government Finance and Decentralization
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| Unique citing works | 182 |
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| Citations per year | 6,07 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2026 (31) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 155 |