Local Taxes and Parental Choice of Education: The Case of Pennsylvania

Tin-Chun Lin ()
Additional contact information
Tin-Chun Lin: Indiana University - Northwest

Economics Bulletin, 2008, vol. 9, issue 24, 1-7

Abstract: In this paper, we empirically examine the link between local taxes and education choice. Due to the endogenous relationship, 2SLS estimation is applied to correct for simultaneous equations bias. A total of 500 school districts in the state of Pennsylvania during the school years 1999-2000 to 2001-2002 are selected for a case study. Results indicate that local taxes per student are positively associated with private school enrollment rates, implying that increases in these enrollments greatly benefit public schools through tax support.

Keywords: Local; Taxes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H0 I2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-07-30
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.accessecon.com/pubs/EB/2008/Volume9/EB-08I20011A.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-08i20011

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Economics Bulletin from AccessEcon
Bibliographic data for series maintained by John P. Conley ().