Individual Demand for Local Public Schooling: Evidence from Swedish Survey Data

Åsa Ahlin () and Eva Johansson ()
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Eva Mörk ()

International Tax and Public Finance, 2001, vol. 8, issue 4, 351 pages

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 specification, we find that demand is inelastic with respect to income and taxprice, much in line with previous Swedish findings in a median voter framework. Estimation of a log-linear demand specification indicates that the elasticities of demand for schooling are higher in Sweden than in the US. Testing the hypothesis 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. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001

Keywords: demand for local public school expenditure; survey data; public employees (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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