Peter Bearse

Endogenous Public Expenditures on Education

PETER BEARSE, GERHARD GLOMM, DEBRA MOORE PATTERSON

We construct a model of the determination of public funding of education through majority voting. Households have the option of privately supplementing public education. Alternatively, they can opt...

EFFICIENT SEMIPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION OF DURATION MODELS WITH UNOBSERVED HETEROGENEITY

Bearse, Peter, Canals-Cerd , Jos, Rilstone, Paul

This paper develops a new semiparametric approach for the estimation of hazard functions in the presence of unobserved heterogeneity. The hazard function is specified parametrically, whereas the...

Composition of Government Budget, Non-single Peakedness, and Majority Voting.

Bearse, Peter, Glomm, Gerhard, Janeba, Eckhard

In this paper we study whether majority voting equilibria exist when preferences over public policies are not single peaked. The government levies a proportional income tax. Tax revenue is used to...

On the intra-regional diffusion of business services activity

Peter Bearse

Bearse P. J. (1978) The intra-regional diffusion of business services, Reg. Studies 12, 563--578. This paper treats the spatial decentralization of industry as a problem in spatial diffusion....

Paratransit demand of disabled people

Bearse, Peter, Gurmu, Shiferaw, Rapaport, Carol, Stern, Steven

This paper estimates the demand for transportation systems that are used primarily by disabled individuals. These systems are known as paratransit systems and have experienced large increases in...