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Does Immigration Induce "Native Flight" from Public Schools into Private Schools?

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

The paper tests whether native-born American families respond to inflows of immigrants by sending their children to private school.Â The analysis uses 1980 and 1990 Census data from 132 metropolitan areas.Â For primary school students, no significant relation between immigration and...

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Is There "White Flight" into Private Schools? Evidence from the National Educational Longitudinal Survey

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

Using a recently released confidential dataset from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), we find some evidence of "white flight" from public schools into private schools partly in response to minority schoolchildren.Â We also examine whether "white flight" is from all...

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Explaining Ethnic, Racial, and Immigrant Differences in Private School Attendance

Fairlie, Robert - Economics Department, University of California-Santa … - 2014

Using 1990 Census microdata, we explore ethnic, racial and immigrant differences in private school attendance.Â We find high rates of private school attendance among white natives, white immigrants, and Asian natives.Â In contrast, we find low private school rates among black and Hispanic...

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Tax policy and income inequality in the U.S., 1978—2009: A decomposition approach

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to …

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Monopoly, Inequality and Redistribution via the Public Provision of Private Goods

Moutos, Thomas; Katsimi, Margarita - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006

The relationship between inequality and redistribution is usually studied under the assumption that the government … expenditure). We study the effects of inequality on the size (and structure) of redistributive programs in both perfectly … case and that in the latter case an increase in inequality can be associated with a fall in the tax rate. We find also that …

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Skill Dynamics, Inequality and Social Policies

Bauduin, Nicolas; Hellier, Joël - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006

redistribution policy makes it possible to increase output per capita and to reduce inequality because both increase the educated …

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Microsimulation as a Tool for Evaluating Redistribution Policies

Bourguignon, François; Spadaro, Amedeo - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006

During the last 20 years, microsimulation models have been increasingly applied in qualitative and quantitative analysis of public policies. This paper discusses microsimulation techniques and their theoretical background as a tool for the analysis of public policies. It next analyses basic...

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Inequality and growth in the context of the Mexican economy: Does inequality matter for growth?

Coll, Jorge Alberto Charles - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2014

This paper contributes to the debate over the relationship between inequality and inclusive growth by testing the … proposition of a kinked-non linear relationship between income inequality and economic growth in a country specific context. The …. An inverted ``U'' shaped relationship is demonstrated, showing that low levels of inequality exert a positive correlation …

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Contributions of taxes and benefits to vertical, horizontal and redistributive effects

Urban, Ivica - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ

acknowledged approaches in the study of income inequality and redistribution: Kakwani’s (1984) decomposition of redistributive … inequality into contributions of different income components. The roles of taxes and benefits in achieving vertical, horizontal …

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Shaping inequality and intergenerational persistence of poverty : free college or better schools

Krueger, Dirk; Ludwig, Alexander; Popova, Irina - 2024

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