Browsing Duke Faculty Articles by Author "0230411"

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Breton, Albert. Competitive governments: An economic theory of politics and public finance

Nechyba, Thomas (JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE, 1997)
Local Property and State Income Taxes: The Role of Interjurisdictional Competition and Collusion

Nechyba, Thomas (SSRN eLibrary, 1997)

addresses two long-standing positive questions in public finance: 1) Why is the property tax, despite widespread popular complaints against its fairness, the almost exclusive tax instrument used by local governments; and ...
Mobility, Targeting, and Private-School Vouchers

Nechyba, Thomas (The American Economic Review, 2000)

This paper uses general-equilibrium simulations to explore the role of residential mobility in shaping the impact of different private-school voucher policies. The simulations are derived from a three-district model of ...
Public School Finance in a General Equilibrium Tiebout World: Equalization Programs, Peer Effects and Private School Vouchers

Nechyba, Thomas (National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series, 1996-06)

This paper uses computable general equilibrium simulations to investigate the effect of private school vouchers. It improves on past computational approaches by (i) endogenizing the funding of public schools through the ...
Social Approval, Values, and AFDC: A Reexamination of the Illegitimacy Debate

Nechyba, Thomas (Journal of Political Economy, 2001)

This paper models the fertility decision of individuals who differ in their wage rate and their intensity of preferences for rearing children, and whose utility of having a child out of wedlock depends on the level of ...
Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility, David Schmidtz and Robert E. Goodin. Cambridge University Press, 1999, xviii 222 pages.

Nechyba, Thomas (2000-10-01)
What Can Be (and What Has Been) Learned from General Equilibrium Simulation Models of School Finance?

Nechyba, Thomas (2003)

Synthesizes lessons from school finance research that employs computational structural models to investigate different policy proposals. Suggests that full equilibrium analysis may lead to outcomes that differ from those ...