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States and school finance

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In the US, the share of school district revenues that state and local governments provide for K‐12 has changed significantly over the last century. Historically, K‐12 education was highly decentralized and funded largely by property taxes of local governments. States played only a supporting role. Today, states, which obtain the biggest portion of tax revenues from income and sales taxes, play a large and increasing role in school funding. This paper uses a hybrid Tiebout model to analyze the impact of the education finance policy change in a general equilibrium framework. La proporción de los ingresos del distrito escolar que los gobiernos estatales y locales asignan en los EE.UU. para la educación desde preescolar hasta el duodécimo grado (K‐12) ha cambiado significativamente en el último siglo. Históricamente, la educación K‐12 estaba muy descentralizada y financiada en gran medida por los impuestos de los gobiernos locales sobre la propiedad. Los Estados sólo desempeñaban un papel de apoyo. Hoy en día, los Estados, que obtienen la mayor parte de los ingresos fiscales de los impuestos sobre la renta y sobre las ventas, desempeñan un papel importante y creciente en la financiación de las escuelas. En este trabajo se utiliza un modelo híbrido de Tiebout para analizar el impacto del cambio en la política de financiamiento de la educación dentro de un marco de equilibrio general. 米国では、K‐12のための州および地方政府からの交付金による公立学区(school district)の歳入の割合は、過去1世紀に渡り大きく変化してきた。従来、K‐12教育制度は、権限が高度に分散されており、地方政府の固定資産税収が主な資金源となっていた。州の役割は補助的なものであった。今日では、所得税と売上税が税収の大部分を占める州が、学校の資金調達において大きな役割を担っており、その役割はさらに拡大している。本稿では、ハイブリッド型のTieboutモデルを使用して、一般均衡の枠組みにおける教育財政政策の変化の影響を分析する。

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  • Kuzey Yilmaz, 2020. "States and school finance," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 12(3), pages 539-549, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:rgscpp:v:12:y:2020:i:3:p:539-549
    DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12221
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