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Title: All Economics Is Local: How Macroeconomic Trends Affect the Political Economy of Neighborhood Schools

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: This dissertation uses the institutions of public schooling in the U.S. as a lens to study how broad economic trends – rising income inequality and the business cycle – affect household residential choice, neighborhood composition and popular support for local public goods. The first chapter explores the consequences of rising neighborhood inequality for public schools. Income inequality across neighborhoods more than doubled in the U.S. between 1970 and 2010. This spatial reallocation may affect public schools through changes to the distribution of peers and support for local taxes. I find that rising neighborhood inequality within a school district increases local school funding, but also depresses human capital . . .

Url: https://escholarship.org/content/qt5694r9d4/qt5694r9d4.pdf

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Authors: Hearey, Owen Foley

Institution: University of California Los Angelos

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Education, Other

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