Education Politics, Schooling Choice and Public School Quality: The Impact of Income Polarisation

Majda Benzidia, Michel Lubrano and Paolo Melindi-Ghidi
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Majda Benzidia: Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, AMSE, Marseille, France., https://www.amse-aixmarseille.fr/en

No 2229, AMSE Working Papers from Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France

Abstract: What is the role of income polarisation for explaining differentials in public funding of education? To answer this question, we provide anew theoretical modelling for the income distribution that can directly monitor income polarisation. It leads to a new income polarisationindex where the middle class is represented by an interval. We implement this distribution in a political economy model with endogenousfertility and public/private educational choices. We show that when households vote on public schooling expenditures, polarisation mattersfor explaining disparities in public education funding across communities. Using micro-data covering two groups of school districts, wefind that both income polarisation and income inequality affect public school funding with opposite signs whether there exist a Tax Limitation Expenditure (TLE) or not.

Keywords: education politics; schooling choice; income polarisation; probabilistic voting; Bayesian inference (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C11 D31 D72 H52 I24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 32 pages
Date: 2022-12
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