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posted on 1995-06-01, 00:00 authored by Daniele Coen-PiraniThe evolution of education spending in California has received much attention from
both academics and practitioners after education …finance reform in the 1970’s. This
paper quantifies the contribution of immigration to the relative decline in elementary
and secondary public education spending per student in California between 1970 and
2000. A quantitative model of school choice and voting over public education is used to
perform the counterfactual experiment. The model predicts that education spending
per student in California would have been 24 percent higher than in reality in the year
2000 if U.S. immigration had been restricted to its 1970 level.