Community, inequality, and local public goods: evidence from school financing in South Africa
To examine how local income distribution affects both a community’s ability to pay for schooling and the quality of that schooling, this research merges household and school census data from South Africa. Empirical results are twofold. First, while the median income and the average household income...
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| author | Yamauchi, Futoshi Nishiyama, Shinichi |
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| description | To examine how local income distribution affects both a community’s ability to pay for schooling and the quality of that schooling, this research merges household and school census data from South Africa. Empirical results are twofold. First, while the median income and the average household income increase school fees, inequality inhousehold income (standard deviation) decreases school fees, which indicates that the lower tail of income distribution pulls down school fees. Second, an increase in school fees significantly improves school quality, decreasing the learner-educator ratio and increasing the number of nonsubsidized educators. The result is consistent with (1) strategic behavior of the low-income group and (2) optimal school fee determination with incomplete interhousehold income transfers. Empirical results and simulations demonstrate the possibility that income and asset inequality may reduce the quality of public goods, decreasing human capital and income growth for the next generation. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1606552025-11-06T06:39:36Z Community, inequality, and local public goods: evidence from school financing in South Africa Yamauchi, Futoshi Nishiyama, Shinichi willingness to pay human capital education To examine how local income distribution affects both a community’s ability to pay for schooling and the quality of that schooling, this research merges household and school census data from South Africa. Empirical results are twofold. First, while the median income and the average household income increase school fees, inequality inhousehold income (standard deviation) decreases school fees, which indicates that the lower tail of income distribution pulls down school fees. Second, an increase in school fees significantly improves school quality, decreasing the learner-educator ratio and increasing the number of nonsubsidized educators. The result is consistent with (1) strategic behavior of the low-income group and (2) optimal school fee determination with incomplete interhousehold income transfers. Empirical results and simulations demonstrate the possibility that income and asset inequality may reduce the quality of public goods, decreasing human capital and income growth for the next generation. 2005 2024-11-21T09:51:28Z 2024-11-21T09:51:28Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160655 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Yamauchi, Futoshi; Nishiyama, Shinichi. Community, inequality, and local public goods: evidence from school financing in South Africa. FCND Discussion Paper 201. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160655 |
| spellingShingle | willingness to pay human capital education Yamauchi, Futoshi Nishiyama, Shinichi Community, inequality, and local public goods: evidence from school financing in South Africa |
| title | Community, inequality, and local public goods: evidence from school financing in South Africa |
| title_full | Community, inequality, and local public goods: evidence from school financing in South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Community, inequality, and local public goods: evidence from school financing in South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Community, inequality, and local public goods: evidence from school financing in South Africa |
| title_short | Community, inequality, and local public goods: evidence from school financing in South Africa |
| title_sort | community inequality and local public goods evidence from school financing in south africa |
| topic | willingness to pay human capital education |
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