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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Vertical Equity"”.
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Identifying individual patients' socio-economic position : a basis for vertical equity approaches in primary health care
… that this method could be used as a basis for a vertical equity approach to healthcare. Logistic regression techniques and measures of sensitivity and specificity are used in an original method designed to identify patients to two socioeconomic benchmarks. Criteria are provided for a framework in …
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Vertical equity in property taxation: a spatial analysis of proposition 13 in San Diego County, California
… the strongest relationships to both property tax equity and municipal fiscal health. Each of the dependent variables considered exhibited spatial dependence signifying that the spatial occurrence of the variables is not random and depends on the existence of those variables at neighboring census …
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An Historical Analysis of Fiscal Equity in the Commonwealth of Virginia: 2004-2018
This research examines the horizontal and vertical equity of public school funding in the Commonwealth of Virginia from 2004 to 2018. This study analyzed and measured the horizontal and vertical equity funding allocations across each reporting division in the Commonwealth of Virginia from FY2004 to …
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Equity in Mississippi: a Study of Public School Funding
This quantitative study analyzes the level of equity of the Mississippi Adequate Education Program funding formula through an analysis of the base per-pupil per district allocation system. This study researches the levels of horizontal equity, vertical equity, and fiscal neutrality in relation to …
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Equity in Texas Public Education Facilities Funding
… equitable in the state of Texas. In this study, equity values were framed around three equity concepts established in school funding equity literature. These three concepts were (1) horizontal equity defined as the equal treatment of equals, (2) vertical equity defined as the unequal treatment of …
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Owner-occupied housing taxation: an equity evaluation of the UK and US tax systems.
… identifies and quantifies horizontal and vertical inequities resulting from selected owner-occupied housing tax policies though micro-simulation. The simulations are spread sheet constructions underpinned by the respective UK and US tax systems. Within each country-specific simulation case …
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Fiscal Equity for At-Risk Students: A Quanitative Analysis of the At-Risk Index Component of the New Mexico Public School Funding Formula
… research has been designed to investigate fiscal equity for at-risk students in the State of New Mexico. This empirical data analysis compared equity indices before the At-Risk Index was implemented in the New Mexico public school funding formula in FY 1996-97 and after the At-Risk Index was …
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Development of context-sensitive accessibility indicators: a GIS-based modelling approach for Cape Town
… drivers of accessibility and evaluate equity in the distribution of accessibility benefits for various population groups in Cape Town. In the study, transport network data of Cape Town are utilised to develop GIS-based indicators of network access and origin accessibility to various …
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Some characteristics and environmental sensitivities of taxpayers taking the United States political contribution tax credit during 1979-1982
… of political donors and because of threats to vertical equity.
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An Empirical Investigation Into the Effects on Tax Equity of Selected Alternative Methods of Taxing Capital Gains and Losses
… tax treatments of capital assets on tax equity as defined by selected definitions. The data source for this study was the Internal Revenue Service Individual Tax Model Tapes for tax year 1975. The five alternative tax treatments used were (1) the 1975 Code rules, (2) the 1980 Code rules, …
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Fractionalization and tax effort to fund Illinois public schools: an equity analysis
Fractionalization is a quantifiable measure of diversity for a categorical variable within a population. In public education, research supports the sociological benefits of having a diverse student and faculty population. From a school funding perspective, however, a diverse student population may …
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Costs and benefits of electricity subsidies in Uganda
… sub-sector. To ascertain the extent of vertical equity, the research also investigated the benefit incident of electricity subsides, from a macro-level standpoint. This is pertinent given that only 11 per cent of Ugandans have access to grid-power and electricity use favours higher …
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Measuring the impact of Voluntary Health Insurance on out of pocket costs and socioeconomic-related inequality: methodological challenges and potential solutions with an application to Vietnam
… biases. Also, the standard approach of measuring vertical equity in financing fails to account for the unmet need for care. This thesis proposes an improved approach, based on Heckman’s selection model, to estimate the impact of insurance on the cost of health care, after correcting for …
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Equity and Adequacy: A Funding Crisis in the Tennessee Education System.
… legislation. All 20 participants stated that equity and adequacy remained a problem in the BEP and each gave suggestions and identified some areas in which to begin correcting the discrepancies. All 20 participants said that they thought the BEP was a much better funding mechanism, overall, …