Publications of Thomas J. Nechyba

Books

  1. T. Nechyba, Microeconomics (working title) (2009 (expected publication)), Southwest/Thompson
  2. T. Nechyba, D. Older-Aguilar and Patrick McEwan, The Effect of Family and Community Resources on Education Outcomes (1999), New Zealand Government, Ministry of Education

Book Reviews

  1. Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen, IQ and the Wealth of Nations, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. XLII (2004), pp. 220-21
  2. Alan Auerbach and Martin Feldstein, eds., Handbook of Public Economics: Vol. 3, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. XLI (2003), pp. 1299-1301
  3. George R. Zodrow, State Sales and Income Taxes: An Economic Analysis, Journal of Regional Science (2001)
  4. David Schmidtz and Robert E. Goodin, Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility, Economics and Philosophy (2000)
  5. Helen Ladd, Local Government Tax and Land Use Policies in the United States: Understanding the Links, Regional Science and Urban Economics, vol. 29 (1999), pp. 547-52
  6. Albert Breton, Competitive Governments: An Economic Theory of Politics and Public Finance, Journal of Economic Literature, vol. 35 (1997), pp. 2062-2064

Journal Articles

  1. T.J. Nechyba, Alternative School Finance Strategies, Regional Economic Development (2006)
  2. T.J. Nechyba, School Finance, School Choice and Residential Segregation, CESifo Economic Studies (2005), [Keynote Lecture at 2004 CES Public Sector Economics Conference]
  3. T.J. Nechyba, School Competition and School Quality in the U.S., CESifo DICE Report - Journal of Institutional Comparison, vol. 4 (December, 2004), pp. 3-8
  4. T. Nechyba and R. Walsh, Urban Sprawl, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 18 no. 4 (Fall, 2004), pp. 177-200
  5. T. Nechyba, Public School Finance and Urban School Policy: General Versus Partial Equilibrium Analysis, Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs (Fall, 2003), pp. 139-170
  6. T. Nechyba, School Finance, Spatial Income Segregation and the Nature of Communities, Journal of Urban Economics, vol. 54 no. 1 (July, 2003), pp. 61-88
  7. T. Nechyba, What Can be (and What Has Been) Learned from General Equilibrium Simulation Models of School Finance, National Tax Journal, vol. LVI no. 2 (June, 2003), pp. 387-414
  8. T. Nechyba, Centralization, Fiscal Federalism and Private School Attendance, International Economic Review, vol. 44 no. 1 (February, 2003), pp. 179-204
  9. T. Nechyba, Social Approval, Values and AFDC: A Re-Examination of the Illegitimacy Debate, Journal of Political Economy (June, 2001), pp. 638-72
  10. T. Nechyba, Mobility, Targeting and Private School Vouchers, American Economic Review, vol. 90 no. 1 (March, 2000), pp. 130-46
  11. T. Nechyba, School Finance Induced Migration Patterns: The Impact of Private School Vouchers, Journal of Public Economic Theory, vol. 1 no. 1 (1999), pp. 5-50
  12. T. Nechyba and R. Strauss, Community Choice and Local Public Services: A Discrete Choice Approach, Regional Science and Urban Economics, vol. 28 no. 1 (1998), pp. 51-74
  13. 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), pp. 119-125
  14. T. Nechyba, Existence of Equilibrium and Stratification in Local and Hierarchical Public Goods Economies with Property Taxes and Voting, Economic Theory, vol. 10 (1997), pp. 277-304
  15. T. Nechyba, Local Property and State Income Taxes: The Role of Interjurisdictional Competition and Collusion, Journal of Political Economy, vol. 105 no. 2 (1997), pp. 351-384
  16. T. Nechyba, A Computable General Equilibrium Model of Intergovernmental Aid, Journal of Public Economics, vol. 62 (1996), pp. 363-397
  17. T. Nechyba, Fiscal Federalism and Local Public Finance: A Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Approach, International Tax and Public Finance, vol. 3 (1996), pp. 215-231
  18. 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), pp. 136-141
  19. T. Nechyba, The Southern Wage Gap, Human Capital and the Quality of Education, Southern Economic Journal, vol. 57 (1990), pp. 308-322

Chapters in Books

  1. T.J. Nechyba, Tiebout Sorting and School Choice, in International Encyclopedia of Education, edited by Brewer, Dominic and Patrick McEwan (forthcoming), Elsevier
  2. T.J. Nechyba, The Social Context of Vouchers, in Handbook of Research on School Choice (forthcoming), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
  3. T.J. Nechyba, Public and Private School Competition Under U.S. Fiscal Federalism, in Land Policy in Fiscal Decentralization, edited by Ingram, Greg and Yu-Hung Hong (forthcoming)
  4. T.J. Nechyba, Mobilizing the Private Sector for Public Education: A Theoretical Overview, in School Choice International, edited by P. Peterson and H. Patrinos (2007)
  5. J.L. Vigdor and T.J. Nechyba, Peer Effects in North Carolina Public Schools, in Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem, edited by P. Peterson and L. Woessmann (2007), pp. 73-102, MIT Press
  6. T.J. Nechyba, The Efficiency and Equity of Tiebout in the United States: Taxes, Services, and Property Values, in Land Policies and their Outcomes, edited by G. Ingram and Y. Hong (2007), pp. 68-86, Lincoln Institute Press: Cambridge, MA
  7. T. Nechyba, Income and Peer Quality Sorting in Public and Private Schools, in Handbook of Economics of Education, Volume 2, Elsevier/North Holland., edited by E. Hanushek and F. Welch (2006), pp. 1327-1368
  8. T.J. Nechyba, Mobility, Targeting and Private School Vouchers, in The Economics of Schooling and School Quality, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics (Mark Blaug, ed.), edited by Eric Hanushek (2004), Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd ([Reprinted from 2000 American Economic Review article].)
  9. D. Epple and T. Nechyba, Fiscal Decentralization, in Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics: Volume 4, edited by V. Henderson and J. Thisse (2004), North Holland
  10. T. Nechyba, Prospects for Achieving Equity or Adequacy in Education: The Limits of State Aid in General Equilibrium, in Helping Children Left Behind, edited by J. Yinger (2004), MIT Press
  11. T.J. Nechyba and J.L. Vigdor, Peer Effects in North Carolina Public Schools (2004)
  12. T. Nechyba, Introducing School Choice into Multi-District Public School Systems, in The Economics of School Choice, edited by Caroline Hoxby (2003), University of Chicago Press
  13. T. Nechyba, The Benefit View and the New View: Where do we stand 25 years into the debate?, in Property Taxation and Local Public Finance, edited by Wallace Oates (2002), pp. 113-21, Lincoln Institute Press: Cambridge, MA
  14. T. Nechyba with Thomas MaCurdy, How Does a Community's Demographic Composition Alter Its Fiscal Burdens?, in Demographic Change and Fiscal Policy, edited by A. Auerbach and R. Lee (2001), pp. 101-148, Cambridge University Press
  15. M. Heise and T. Nechyba, School Finance Reform: Introducing the Choice Factor, in City Schools: Lessons from New York (2000), John Hopkins University Press
  16. T. MaCurdy and T. Nechyba and J. Battacharaya, An Economic Framework for Assessing the Fiscal Impact of Immigration, in The Immigration Debate: Studies on the Economic, Demographic and Fiscal Effects of Immigration, edited by J. Smith and B. Edmonston (1998), National Academy Press
  17. T. Nechyba, Replacing Capital Taxes with Land Taxes: Efficiency and Distributional Implications with an Application to the US, in Land Value Taxation: Can It and Will It Work Today, edited by D. Netzer (1998), Lincoln Institute Press
  18. T. Nechyba, Computable General Equilibrium in Local Public Finance and Fiscal Federalism: Applications to Local Taxation, Intergovernmental Aid and Educational Vouchers, in Fiscal Aspects of Evolving Federations, edited by D. Wildasin (1997), Cambridge University Press (pp 168-193.)
  19. R. McKinnon and T. Nechyba, Tax Competition in Federal Systems: Political Accountability and Financial Constraints, in The New Federalism: Can the States be Trusted, edited by J. Ferejohn and B. Weingast (1997), Hoover Institution Press (pp. 3-61.)

Other

  1. T. Nechyba, "Comment" on "Non-Fiscal Residential Zoning", in The Tiebout Model at Fifty: Essays in Public Economics in Honor of Wallace Oates, edited by W. Fischel (2006), Lincoln Institute Press: Cambridge, MA
  2. T. Nechyba, "Comment" on "Land Taxation in New York City: A General Equilibrium Analysis", in Urban Issues and Public Finance: Essays in Honor of Dick Netzer, edited by A. Schwartz (2004), pp. 95-100, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  3. T.J. Nechyba, "Prospects for Land Rent Taxes in State and Local Tax Reforms" (2003), Lincoln Institute Working Paper
  4. T. Nechyba, "Comment" on "Immigrant Children and New York City Schools: Segregation and Its Consequences", Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs (2002), pp. 208-211
  5. T.J. Nechyba, "A Model of Multiple Districts and Private Schools: The Role of Mobility, Targeting and Private School Vouchers" (1999), NBER working paper #7239
  6. T.J. Nechyba, "Public School Finance in a General Equilibrium Tiebout World: Equalization Programs, Peer Effects and Private School Vouchers" (1996), NBER working paper #5642
  7. T.J. Nechyba, "Block Grants, Matching Grants and the 'Flypaper Effect': The Role of Local and State/National Tax Bases" (1994)