Micro-estimation of the demand for schooling
利用马萨诸塞州数据重复了密歇根州一项关于学校支出的微观研究，发现收入需求弹性明显小于1，这与包含教育生产函数的更一般模型一致。
Both micro and macro studies of the demand for local public schooling are quite common. Micro studies, which rely explicitly on the use of survey instruments, allow for more extensive data sets and more variables, but are subject to response biases. This paper uses data for the state of Massachusetts to replicate an earlier Michigan micro study of school spending. The authors find generally similar results in both states; in particular, they find an income elasticity of demand that is substantially less than one. They suggest that such a result is consistent with a more general model that includes an educational production function.