School Quality, School Choice and Residential Mobility

Brunner, Eric J.

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“…Our nested sampling design of repeated sampling of homes within seasons enabled us to investigate seasonal effects with improved precision. We also collected and adjusted for multiple potential confounding factors, including acculturation and socioeconomic factors that have been previously shown to correlate with pesticide levels in house dust 19 , and may also affect where one chooses to live 47 – 49 . To our knowledge, only one recent study of pesticide drift has used the CropScape data 50 .…”

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Evaluation of the relationship between residential orchard density and dimethyl organophosphate pesticide residues in house dust

Plascak

Griffith

Workman

et al. 2018

J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol

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Reducing residential pesticide exposure requires identification of exposure pathways. mCompared to the agriculture worker ‘take-home’ and residential use pathways, evidence of the ‘drift’ pathway to pesticide exposure has been inconsistent.Questionnaire data from individuals (n=99) and dust samples (n=418) from households across three growing seasons in 2011 were from the For Healthy Kids! study. Summed dimethyl organophosphate pesticide (OP) (Azinphos-Methyl, Phosmet, and Malathion) concentrations were quantified from house dust samples. Spatially-weighted orchard densities surrounding households were calculated based on various distances from homes. Regression models tested associations between orchard density, residential pesticide use, agriculture worker residents, and summed dimethyl OP house dust concentrations.Estimated relationships between orchard density and dimethyl OP in house dust were mixed: a 5% increase in orchard density resulted in 0.3% and 0.5% decreases in dimethyl OP house dust concentrations when considering land-cover 750m or 1250m away from households, respectively, but null associations with land-cover 60m or 200m away. Dimethyl OP house dust concentrations were 400% higher within homes where at least two residents were agriculture workers.Despite inconclusive evidence for the drift pathway due to potential for bias, relationships between number of agriculture workers and dimethyl OP house dust concentration underscores the take-home pathway.

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Evaluation of the relationship between residential orchard density and dimethyl organophosphate pesticide residues in house dust

Plascak

Griffith

Workman

et al. 2018

J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol

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“…(They also demonstrate that racial disparities in spending within states have almost entirely disappeared.) Local-government capitalization studies still consistently find that improved school quality raises local home values, but this is probably accounted for by peer effects and test results rather than local spending variations (Brunner, 2014). The connection between local property-tax financing and spending has been disrupted, if not broken, by the school finance litigation movement and related legislation.…”

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In Memory of Professor Wallace E. Oates

Diamond¹

2016

National Tax Journal

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Local property taxes are commonly regarded as regressive, but the two dominant (and competing) views of the property tax would disagree. Under the capital-tax view, the national element of the tax is a tax on real estate capital, which makes it somewhat inefficient but progressive, given the distribution of ownership of real property. Under the benefit view, the local component of the property tax is not really a tax but a fee for service. We describe evidence that the capital-tax view applies in relatively undeveloped areas, while the benefit view is more relevant in developed urban areas.

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Unintended Consequences: The Impact of Proposition 2½ Overrides on School Segregation in Massachusetts

Zabel

2014

Education Finance and Policy

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I investigate a possible unintended consequence of Proposition 2½ override behavior—that it led to increased segregation in school districts in Massachusetts. This can occur because richer, low-minority towns tend to have more successful override votes that attract similar households with relatively high demands for public services who can afford to pay for them. To evaluate this hypothesis, I collect panel data on override behavior from 1982 to 2012 and merge this with data on school district enrollments and other district- and town-level characteristics. I find evidence that passing overrides earmarked for schools results in a significant decrease in the percent of nonwhite students enrolled in Massachusetts school districts. This happens in districts with below-average nonwhite school enrollments, and hence increases segregation.

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School Quality, School Choice and Residential Mobility

Cited by 3 publications

References 119 publications

Evaluation of the relationship between residential orchard density and dimethyl organophosphate pesticide residues in house dust

Evaluation of the relationship between residential orchard density and dimethyl organophosphate pesticide residues in house dust

In Memory of Professor Wallace E. Oates

Unintended Consequences: The Impact of Proposition 2½ Overrides on School Segregation in Massachusetts

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