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Title: Property Tax Funded Suburban Public Education: Tiebout Benefits or Community-Based Redistribution?

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Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: The Tiebout-Hamilton model focuses on benefit taxation in homogeneous communities. It is well known that local heterogeneity implies the likelihood of local redistribution. Yet there are no studies of the extent of such transfers. This paper provides evidence that local redistribution in property-tax based suburban schools is substantial (amounting to $2.3 billion for Chicago suburban districts). Most of those transfers flow not from high to low income households, but rather from households with no children in local school systems to households with children in those systems. We show that capitalization offsets little if any of these education contributions.

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Authors: Kurban, Haydar

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Institution: University of Illinois at Chicago

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education

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