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The spatial distribution of public services: A structural model of voting, educational production, and the government's allocation of educational inputs

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  • Donald Haurin
  • H. Gill

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This essay analyzes the intrajurisdictional allocation of public resources by a governmental agency, using education as the example. The agency's decision is guided, in part, by the pReferences of voters within each subarea of the jurisdiction. Voter's choices are influenced by the likely allocation of additional resources resulting from passage of a tax levy, and the tax cost of the levy. After deriving predictions of the relationships between the variables of the model, we estimate a simultaneous equation system. Included are equations specifying the educational production function, voting decisions, and bureaucratic resource allocation. This essay also notes the biases present in prior studies that only considered the ‘demand side’ of voting models. Copyright Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 1984

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  • Donald Haurin & H. Gill, 1984. "The spatial distribution of public services: A structural model of voting, educational production, and the government's allocation of educational inputs," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 44(3), pages 481-500, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:pubcho:v:44:y:1984:i:3:p:481-500
    DOI: 10.1007/BF00119695
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