Effect of constraints on Tiebout competition: evidence from a school finance reform
研究了密歇根州学校财政改革对高支出学区资源配置的影响，发现改革使高支出学区将更多支出用于教学、更少用于支持服务，从而相对提高了生产率。
Effect of constraints on Tiebout competition: evidence from a school finance reform. Regional Studies. Michigan's school finance reform significantly increased state aid to low-spending districts and placed restraints on the growth of spending in high-spending districts. It is noteworthy that there is no literature yet on the impact of such reforms on resource allocation by school districts. This study begins to fill this gap. It finds that the reform led the high-spending districts to allocate a lower share of their total expenditure to support services and a higher share to instruction (relative to the low-spending districts). To the extent that instructional expenditures are more productive and contribute to student achievement more than support services expenditures, these results suggest that the reform led to a relative increase in productivity in the high-spending districts.