@shylockh Feminism and positional goods: how much would your analysis change if a "community" was a network good rather than a positional good?
when we discussed over the summer, you said that you need an explanation that works for NZ as well as for the US - but at the level of making a model, network externalities make much more sense (even the US is the only country with an obvious white-flight phenom)
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Great question. I think in my view, community and school districts *are* network goods (though not positive sum ones). It's just that school districts are assigned based on land, which is a positional good.
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I think ethnicity definitely makes it worse, but there seems to be a considerable element of it that goes on anyway even in relatively ethnically homogeneous places like Australia and NZ. But you're right, it's a cleaner model of the US.
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