The determinants of the choice between public and private production of a publicly funded service reconsidered

More on the choice between public and private production of a publicly funded service

“…Professor Pack's (1990) comment on our 1987 paper centers around the robustness of the empirical findings for our measure of monetary factors (relative wages, RELWAGE) with respect to changes in model specification. She correctly notes that our empirical results imply that relative wages exercise more influence on public decision makers' choice of production mode when the model specification includes a panoply of demographic variables (Pack labels this specification the "full" model).…”

Government Policy and Private Organizational Forms: Analysis of Refuse Collection and Disposal in Three Metropolitan Cities

“…The differences in the conclusions drawn by Pack's (1990) (DeHoog, 1984). Other factors, such as labor unions…”

“…In the areas of contracting for service delivery, for example, the literature has focused on efficiency results and not on the process of decision-making. Pack (1990) has offered an opposing view to the conclusion drawn by McGuire, Ohsfeldt, and VanCott. In her own study, Pack (1990) has concluded that more work is needed on economies of scale (in this case more study on school bus transportation) before any conclusion can be reached about the importance of monetary and nonmonetary factors in contracting decisions.…”