کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5068854 1373013 2013 18 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Inequality and school funding in the rural United States, 1890
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم انسانی و هنر تاریخ
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Inequality and school funding in the rural United States, 1890
چکیده انگلیسی

This paper examines the relationship of inequality to school funding in counties of the U.S. in 1890. Inequality, measured here on the basis of farm-size distributions, is found to be negatively related to local school property tax revenues across the whole sample of 1345 rural counties. However, further analysis shows that this relationship is not consistent across the sample. In the North, there is a significant negative relationship between inequality and school funding, and this relationship is shown to be consistent with the fact that assessed values of property did not rise linearly with wealth. Across the South, there is no distinct relationship between inequality and school funding. The results also indicate that inequality in the South cannot directly explain the gap in school funding with the North, in the sense that redistributing farms in the South to match the Northern distributions leads to no predicted increase in school funding.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Explorations in Economic History - Volume 50, Issue 2, April 2013, Pages 267-284
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