Research " Linking Behavioral Economics, Axiomatic Decision Theory and General Equilibrium Theory "

Linking Behavioral Economics, Axiomatic Decision Theory and General Equilibrium Theory This chapter has used the Tiebout choice process—the choice of school characteristics via housing decisions—as a lens through which to study the strength of parental preferences for effective schools relative to those for other neighborhood or school characteristics. Earlier work on Tiebout mobility presumes that parents use their location decisions to choose effective schools; one lesson of the analysis here is that the potential importance of peer group externalities to community desirability can create coordination failures in which ineffective schools are preferred to more effective competitors....