Mary Beth Walker
Georgia State University
54 Papers
309 Citations
Mary Beth Walker is an academic researcher from Georgia State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Wage & Low birth weight. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 53 publications. Previous affiliations of Mary Beth Walker include Rice University.
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The Random Utility Hypothesis and Inference in Demand Systems
Bryan W. Brown,Mary Beth Walker +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the consequences of adopting the random utility hypothesis as an approach for randomizing a system of demand equations and showed that the disturbances of the demand equations may not be homoskedastic, but must be functions of prices and/or income.
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The marriage tax and the rate and timing of marriage.
TL;DR: This work investigates whether couples shift the timing of their marriage from the end of one year to the beginning of the next year in response to an increase in the marriage tax, and finds empirical support for this behavior.
The effect of private school competition on public school performance
Christopher R. Geller,David L. Sjoquist,Mary Beth Walker +2 more
- 01 Jan 2002
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present estimates of the effect of private school competition on public school performance, using data on school districts in Georgia, and estimate models relating tenth-and third-grade test scores for either reading or mathematics to the level of PE competition, finding that test scores are not measurably or significantly higher in areas with greater PE competition.
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Race and the Structure of School Districts in the United States
TL;DR: This paper found that increasing racial heterogeneity of a state population increases the number of school districts and showed that if one group is prejudiced, a greater number of jurisdictions are required to satisfy their taste for disassociation.
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Economies of Scale in Property Tax Assessment
TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the costs of performing property tax as-sessments using a translog cost function over a sample of 138 county-level assessment offices in Georgia.