Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192466 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 484
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
Recent theoretical contributions indicate favorable incentive effects of property taxation on public service providers. The object of this paper is to confront these theories with data from Norwegian school districts. The institutional setting in Norway is well suited for analyzing the effects of property taxation because one can compare school districts with and without property taxation. To take into account potential endogeneity of the choice of implementing property taxation, we rely on instrumental variable techniques. The empirical results indicate that, conditional on resource use, property taxation improves school quality measured as students' result on the national examination.
Subjects: 
Property taxation
Disciplining device
Public sector quality
JEL: 
C21
H71
I22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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