Browsing...Studying..

Hrrgghh... the course of Econ of State & Local Public Sectors, makes me frustrated. So many things to study, so little interest on the class.

Learned more stuffs on Property Taxation tonight. New view vs Benefit view of property tax in the US. It's interesting to know Tiebout's argument that people vote with their feet, to select the community that happened to offer the right level of public goods. I asked the professor, whether there are any empirical work for developing countries...Right, there is none. As mostly the system is centralized, people will not find any differences in public services where ever they live.
Actually the subject is interesting, as Indonesia moves toward decentralized system. Bali is also currently working on local health financing system. This knowledge will be very usefull. But..but..but... the class is boring...the professor is not an effective lecturer... the lecture is not well organized and not challenging students to learn more *or, just ME???*

We're gonna have mid term test next week, then Assignment 2 is due the following week. I can hardly stay focus to work hard for this course. But I have to! Some of my classmates have arranged to solve the previous exams, then share among ourselves. Monday afternoon is the deadline.

I felt down when I got below expectation grade for assignment 1. Then I realized, that the concepts of taxation and its incidence + economic analysis are not fully stuck in my brain. I barely have idea for Assignment 2, so I keep on browsing e-journals and other online empirical works on the subject. It is about alternatives to change school financing. We should argue whether we should keep property taxes as school tax, or change it to local income taxes or local sales taxes.

Blah! How I should know??? *that's why I am taking this course, right?*

I have been browsing articles on the internet to get specific arguments about this school financing; the administration, efficiency, and equity issues. I went to the library to pick up books that I browsed from GSU's internet library. Found some good books.... now have to allocate the time to read them!!! Yeah, after mid term test.
At least, by having those books.... my mind is not crazily bothered by the assignment.
I have to stay focus on the exam!!! That is the first and foremost agenda for now.

Alrighty...have to continue reading whole bunch of required articles for the exam.
Long live Tiebout! ;)

ps: the result of Evaluation Research mid term exam was handed out last Tuesday....It was like a drop of rain for a long dry season (it's hyperbolic). I got 97 + 3 extra credit... Yup, I got 100! The level of my academic confidence just hiked two points.
I hope the result of Epidemiology mid exam can move it up again. :)