When two internally homogeneous communities decide to jointly provide a public service, residents of each community lose some control over the public service provision. The loss of control over public schooling provision contributes to a $2929 or 3.5 percent drop in constant-quality house value....

Public good provision is an important topic. I calculate theimplicit price of school quality from the housing marketusing a hedonic approach, then I estimate the demand andsupply of school quality. This is the first supply ofeducation quality estimation. I find a price elasticity ofsupply of...

Local public schools must satisfy the electorate to pass tax levies and re-elect school board members. Central cityschools seem to pursue these goals differently than suburban or non-metropolitan schools. While central city schools are associated with low standardized test scores, they also are...

Using Ohio metropolitan school districts, I test the factorsthat cause and inhibit political jurisdictions from jointlyproviding public services. The Poirier bivariate probitanalysis suggests that economies of scale factors are moreimportant than socio-demographic factors in determiningwhether...