کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
7370092 1479435 2015 23 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Housing markets and residential segregation: Impacts of the Michigan school finance reform on inter- and intra-district sorting
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
بازار مسکن و جدایی مسکونی: تاثیرات اصلاحات مالی مدرسه میشیگان در مرتب سازی داخلی و خارجی
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
چکیده انگلیسی
Local financing of public schools in the U.S. leads to a bundling of two distinct choices - residential choice and school choice - and has been argued to increase the degree of socioeconomic segregation across school districts. A school finance reform, aimed at equalization of school finances, can in principle weaken this link between housing choice and choice of schools. In this paper, we study the impacts of the Michigan school finance reform of 1994 (Proposal A) on spatial segregation. The reform was a state initiative intended to equalize per pupil expenditures between Michigan school districts and reduce the role of local financing. We find that Proposal A led to a decline in neighborhood sorting within education markets, as measured by changes in the value of housing stock and several socioeconomic indicators. We also find that the reform affected the dispersion of incomes and educational attainment within school districts, increasing within-district heterogeneity in the lowest spending school districts, while decreasing the same in the highest spending districts. However, there is a continued high demand for residence in the highest spending communities. These findings are robust to various alternative definitions of “education market”, and survive several sensitivity checks. These spatial segregation patterns are not replicated in neighboring Ohio that did not face similar school finance equalization.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Public Economics - Volume 122, February 2015, Pages 110-132
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