TY  - JOUR
AU  - Bergstrom,Theodore C.
AU  - Roberts,Judith
AU  - Rubinfeld,Daniel L.
AU  - Shapiro,Perry
TI  - The Efficiency of the Supply of Public Education
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 1901
PY  - 1986
Y2  - April 1986
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1901
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1901.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Daniel L. Rubinfeld
Robert L. Bridges Professor of Law and
Professor of Economics Emeritus
788 Simon Tower, Boalt Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
Tel: 510/642-1959
Fax: 510/642-3767
E-Mail: drubinfeld@law.berkeley.edu
AB  - The question of whether governments spend too much or too little has been a frequent subject of debate, but has been infrequently analyzed.This paper proposes and then applies a methodology which checks to see whether the "Samuelson condition" for the efficient provision of local public education is satisfied, i.e. whether the sum over the school district of individual marginal rates of substitution between public education and a private numeraire equals the marqinal rate of technical substitution between these two qoods. The econometric methodology uses a micro-based approach to the estimation of marginal rate of substitution functions which accounts for possible biases associated with the selection of school districts by individual households.
ER  -