HETEROGENEITY OF PREFERENCES FOR LOCAL PUBLIC-GOODS - THE CASE OF PRIVATE EXPENDITURE ON PUBLIC-EDUCATION

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: GROSS, J
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/0047-2727(94)01440-Y
• 发表日期: 1995
• 页码: 103-127
• 关键词: LOCAL PUBLIC GOODS DEMAND; revealed preference; consumer heterogeneity; Public education

摘要

Revealed preference techniques are used to investigate the degree of heterogeneity of local public good preferences by testing the hypothesis that demographic characteristics are correlated with preferences for expenditure on public education. The test relies on a goodness-of-fit index which is on an estimation of wasted consumer expenditure. We use bootstrap techniques to estimate the distribution of the test statistic. Preference heterogeneity is found to be common, however Democrat-Protestant households are found to have similar tastes, and, to a lesser extent, so are households with school-age children where at least one other trait is held in common. Republicans exhibit the greatest degree of preference heterogeneity.