Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University
Books
- T. Nechyba. Microeconomics (working title). Southwest/Thompson, 2009 (expected publication).
- T. Nechyba, D. Older-Aguilar and Patrick McEwan. The Effect of Family and Community Resources on Education Outcomes. New Zealand Government, Ministry of Education, 1999.
Journal Articles
- T.J. Nechyba. "Alternative School Finance Strategies." Regional Economic Development (2006).
- T.J. Nechyba. "School Finance, School Choice and Residential Segregation." CESifo Economic Studies (2005).
- T.J. Nechyba. "School Competition and School Quality in the U.S.." CESifo DICE Report - Journal of Institutional Comparison 4 (December, 2004): 3-8.
- T. Nechyba and R. Walsh. "Urban Sprawl." Journal of Economic Perspectives 18.4 (Fall, 2004): 177-200.
- T. Nechyba. "Public School Finance and Urban School Policy: General Versus Partial Equilibrium Analysis." Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs (Fall, 2003): 139-170.
- T. Nechyba. "School Finance, Spatial Income Segregation and the Nature of Communities." Journal of Urban Economics 54.1 (July, 2003): 61-88.
- T. Nechyba. "What Can be (and What Has Been) Learned from General Equilibrium Simulation Models of School Finance." National Tax Journal LVI.2 (June, 2003): 387-414.
- T. Nechyba. "Centralization, Fiscal Federalism and Private School Attendance." International Economic Review 44.1 (February, 2003): 179-204.
- T. Nechyba. "Social Approval, Values and AFDC: A Re-Examination of the Illegitimacy Debate." Journal of Political Economy (June, 2001): 638-72.
- T. Nechyba. "Mobility, Targeting and Private School Vouchers." American Economic Review 90.1 (March, 2000): 130-46.
- T. Nechyba. "School Finance Induced Migration Patterns: The Impact of Private School Vouchers." Journal of Public Economic Theory 1.1 (1999): 5-50.
- T. Nechyba and R. Strauss. "Community Choice and Local Public Services: A Discrete Choice Approach." Regional Science and Urban Economics 28.1 (1998): 51-74.
- T. Nechyba. "Public School Finance and Vouchers in a General Equilibrium Tiebout World." Proceedings of the 90th Annual Conference of the National tax Association (1998): 119-125.
- T. Nechyba. "Existence of Equilibrium and Stratification in Local and Hierarchical Public Goods Economies with Property Taxes and Voting." Economic Theory 10 (1997): 277-304.
- T. Nechyba. "Local Property and State Income Taxes: The Role of Interjurisdictional Competition and Collusion." Journal of Political Economy 105.2 (1997): 351-384.
- T. Nechyba. "A Computable General Equilibrium Model of Intergovernmental Aid." Journal of Public Economics 62 (1996): 363-397.
- T. Nechyba. "Fiscal Federalism and Local Public Finance: A Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Approach." International Tax and Public Finance 3 (1996): 215-231.
- T. Nechyba. "Fiscal Federalims and Local Public Finance: A General Equilibrium Approach with Voting." Proceedings of the 86th Annual Conference of the National Tax Association (1995): 136-141.
- T. Nechyba. "The Southern Wage Gap, Human Capital and the Quality of Education." Southern Economic Journal 57 (1990): 308-322.
Chapters in Books
- T.J. Nechyba. "Tiebout Sorting and School Choice." International Encyclopedia of Education.
Ed. Brewer, Dominic and Patrick McEwan Elsevier, forthcoming
- T.J. Nechyba. "The Social Context of Vouchers." Handbook of Research on School Choice. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, forthcoming
- T.J. Nechyba. "Public and Private School Competition Under U.S. Fiscal Federalism." Land Policy in Fiscal Decentralization.
Ed. Ingram, Greg and Yu-Hung Hong forthcoming
- T.J. Nechyba. "Mobilizing the Private Sector for Public Education: A Theoretical Overview." School Choice International.
Ed. P. Peterson and H. Patrinos 2007
- J.L. Vigdor and T.J. Nechyba. "Peer Effects in North Carolina Public Schools." Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem.
Ed. P. Peterson and L. Woessmann MIT Press, 2007: 73-102.
- T.J. Nechyba. "The Efficiency and Equity of Tiebout in the United States: Taxes, Services, and Property Values." Land Policies and their Outcomes.
Ed. G. Ingram and Y. Hong Lincoln Institute Press: Cambridge, MA, 2007: 68-86.
- T. Nechyba. "Income and Peer Quality Sorting in Public and Private Schools." Handbook of Economics of Education, Volume 2.
Ed. E. Hanushek and F. Welch Elsevier/North Holland.2006: 1327-1368.
- T.J. Nechyba. "Mobility, Targeting and Private School Vouchers." The Economics of Schooling and School Quality.
Ed. Eric Hanushek The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics (Mark Blaug, ed.)Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2004 [Reprinted from 2000 American Economic Review article]
- D. Epple and T. Nechyba. "Fiscal Decentralization." Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics: Volume 4.
Ed. V. Henderson and J. Thisse North Holland, 2004
- T. Nechyba. "Prospects for Achieving Equity or Adequacy in Education: The Limits of State Aid in General Equilibrium." Helping Children Left Behind.
Ed. J. Yinger MIT Press, 2004
- T.J. Nechyba and J.L. Vigdor. "Peer Effects in North Carolina Public Schools." 2004
- T. Nechyba. "Introducing School Choice into Multi-District Public School Systems." The Economics of School Choice.
Ed. Caroline Hoxby University of Chicago Press, 2003
- T. Nechyba. "The Benefit View and the New View: Where do we stand 25 years into the debate?." Property Taxation and Local Public Finance.
Ed. Wallace Oates Lincoln Institute Press: Cambridge, MA, 2002: 113-21.
- T. Nechyba with Thomas MaCurdy. "How Does a Community's Demographic Composition Alter Its Fiscal Burdens?." Demographic Change and Fiscal Policy.
Ed. A. Auerbach and R. Lee Cambridge University Press, 2001: 101-148.
- M. Heise and T. Nechyba. "School Finance Reform: Introducing the Choice Factor." City Schools: Lessons from New York. John Hopkins University Press, 2000
- T. MaCurdy and T. Nechyba and J. Battacharaya. "An Economic Framework for Assessing the Fiscal Impact of Immigration." The Immigration Debate: Studies on the Economic, Demographic and Fiscal Effects of Immigration.
Ed. J. Smith and B. Edmonston National Academy Press, 1998
- T. Nechyba. "Replacing Capital Taxes with Land Taxes: Efficiency and Distributional Implications with an Application to the US." Land Value Taxation: Can It and Will It Work Today.
Ed. D. Netzer Lincoln Institute Press, 1998
- T. Nechyba. "Computable General Equilibrium in Local Public Finance and Fiscal Federalism: Applications to Local Taxation, Intergovernmental Aid and Educational Vouchers." Fiscal Aspects of Evolving Federations.
Ed. D. Wildasin Cambridge University Press, 1997 pp 168-193
- R. McKinnon and T. Nechyba. "Tax Competition in Federal Systems: Political Accountability and Financial Constraints." The New Federalism: Can the States be Trusted.
Ed. J. Ferejohn and B. Weingast Hoover Institution Press, 1997 pp. 3-61
Book Reviews
- Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen. IQ and the Wealth of Nations. Journal of Economic Literature XLII
(2004): 220-21.
- Alan Auerbach and Martin Feldstein, eds.. Handbook of Public Economics: Vol. 3. Journal of Economic Literature XLI
(2003): 1299-1301.
- George R. Zodrow. State Sales and Income Taxes: An Economic Analysis. Journal of Regional Science
(2001).
- David Schmidtz and Robert E. Goodin. Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility. Economics and Philosophy
(2000).
- Helen Ladd. Local Government Tax and Land Use Policies in the United States: Understanding the Links. Regional Science and Urban Economics 29
(1999): 547-52.
- Albert Breton. Competitive Governments: An Economic Theory of Politics and Public Finance. Journal of Economic Literature 35
(1997): 2062-2064.
Other
- T. Nechyba. ""Comment" on "Non-Fiscal Residential Zoning"." The Tiebout Model at Fifty: Essays in Public Economics in Honor of Wallace Oates Lincoln Institute Press: Cambridge, MA. (2006).
- T. Nechyba. ""Comment" on "Land Taxation in New York City: A General Equilibrium Analysis"." Urban Issues and Public Finance: Essays in Honor of Dick Netzer Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. (2004): 95-100.
- T.J. Nechyba. ""Prospects for Land Rent Taxes in State and Local Tax Reforms"." Lincoln Institute Working Paper. (2003).
- T. Nechyba. ""Comment" on "Immigrant Children and New York City Schools: Segregation and Its Consequences"." Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs (2002): 208-211.
- T.J. Nechyba. ""A Model of Multiple Districts and Private Schools: The Role of Mobility, Targeting and Private School Vouchers"." NBER working paper #7239. (1999).
- T.J. Nechyba. ""Public School Finance in a General Equilibrium Tiebout World: Equalization Programs, Peer Effects and Private School Vouchers"." NBER working paper #5642. (1996).
- T.J. Nechyba. ""Block Grants, Matching Grants and the 'Flypaper Effect': The Role of Local and State/National Tax Bases"." (1994).
