Observing Preferences for Educational Quality: The Weak Complementarity Approach.

Abstract

This paper applies the weak complementarity approach to the problem of estimating the demand for school quality and other local public goods. Using the same data used by Oates (1969) in his classic study, a demand function for housing is estimated, from which the efficient relative levels of public goods provision are computed. The statistical problems involved in estimating a housing demand function from cross-section data are discussed. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA072939

Entities

People

  • Gregory G. Hilderbrandt
  • Timothy D. Tregarthen

Organizations

  • United States Air Force Academy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Colorado
  • Consumers
  • Databases
  • Families (Human)
  • Housing (Dwellings)
  • Information Science
  • New Jersey
  • New York
  • Observation
  • Quality Of Life
  • Schools
  • Statistical Samples
  • Statistics
  • United States
  • United States Air Force Academy

Fields of Study

  • Economics

Readers

  • Economics
  • Operations Research
  • Regression Analysis.