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The supply of public school quality
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Economics of Education Review Volume 22, Number 4, ISSN 0272-7757 Publisher: Elsevier Ltd

Abstract

Education economists have estimated many education production functions but they have not estimated a supply curve of public school quality. In order to estimate the supply of public school quality, the price of a unit of public schooling must be found. Invoking the theory of implicit markets, the price of a unit of public school quality is derived from a series of housing market hedonic estimations, in which house price is regressed as a function of school quality. The implicit price is then inserted in an estimation of the supply of public schooling. The estimated price elasticity of supply is 0.14, suggesting that: (1) demand-side policies do not effectively raise the quantity of public schooling supplied; and (2) school funding equalization attempts are not likely to significantly change the quantity of public school outcomes supplied in either rich or poor districts.

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Brasington, D.M. (2003). The supply of public school quality. Economics of Education Review, 22(4), 367-377. Elsevier Ltd. Retrieved March 26, 2023 from .

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