Education politics, schooling choice and public school quality: the impact of income polarization

Majda Benzidia, Michel Lubrano and Paolo Melindi-Ghidi
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Majda Benzidia: Aix-Marseille Univ., CNRS, AMSE

International Tax and Public Finance, 2024, vol. 31, issue 6, No 8, 1640-1668

Abstract: Abstract What is the role of income polarization for explaining differentials in public funding of education? To answer this question, we provide a new theoretical modelling for the income distribution that can directly monitor income polarization. It leads to a new income polarization index where the middle class is represented by an interval. We implement this distribution in a political economy model with endogenous fertility and public/private educational choices. We show that when households vote on public schooling expenditures, polarization matters for explaining disparities in public education funding across communities. Using micro-data covering two groups of school districts, we find that both income polarization 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 polarization; Probabilistic voting; Bayesian inference; I24; D31; D72; H52; C11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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