Immigration and spending on public education: California, 1970-2000

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Coen-Pirani, Daniele
• 署名单位: Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2011.05.006
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 1386-1396
• 关键词: immigration; Public education; Private education; Education finance reform; california

摘要

The evolution of education spending in California has received plenty of attention from both academics and practitioners after this state's education finance reform in the 1970's. This paper quantifies the contribution of immigration to the relative decline in elementary and secondary public education spending per student in California in the period 1970-2000. A quantitative model of school choice and voting over public education is used to perform the counterfactual experiments of interest. The model predicts that education spending per student in California would have been 24% higher in the year 2000 if U.S. immigration had been restricted to its 1970 level. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.