Individual demand for local public schooling: Evidence from Swedish survey data

Åsa Ahlin and Eva Johansson ()
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Åsa Ahlin: IFAU - Office of Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Postal: Labour Market Policy Evaluation, P O Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden, http://www.ifau.se
Eva Johansson: IFAU - Office of Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Postal: Labour Market Policy Evaluation, P O Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden, http://www.ifau.se
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Eva Mörk ()

No 2001:1, Working Paper Series from IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy

Abstract: In this paper we investigate the demand for local public school expenditures in Sweden using survey data, a method previously never applied to Swedish data. We compare our results to those of earlier US studies, where the same method is used in a different institutional setup. Estimating a linear demand specifica-tion, we find that demand is inelastic with respect to income and taxprice, much in line with previous Swedish findings in a median voter framework. Es-timation of a log-linear demand specification indicates that the elasticities of demand for schooling are higher in Sweden than in the US. Testing the hy-pothesis that municipal employees tend to have a higher demand for public spending than others, we conclude that income, as well as taxprice and grants, enters the demand function differently for the two groups of employees.

Keywords: individual demand; local public schooling; survey data; public employees (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 H40 H72 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2001-02-19
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Published in International Tax and Public Finance, 2001, pages 331-351.

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