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The Existence Of Non-Elite Private Schools, Francisco Martinez Mora
The Existence Of Non-Elite Private Schools, Francisco Martinez Mora
Francisco Martinez-Mora
We provide an explanation to the puzzle of the existence of paid-for private schools that offer lower quality education than some tuition-free public alternatives. We consider a model of a city composed of two communities: the urban area and the suburbs. The suburban public school provides higher quality education at an implicit price: the higher tax burden plus a housing rent premium. If that price is high enough and the urban public school has a sufficiently low quality, intermediate income households live in the urban area and use a private school. Intermediate quality private schools, then, exist to serve these …