Search Results - subject:"School finance"

All School Finance Equalizations are Not Created Equal

Hoxby, Caroline M. - 2021

Public school finance equalization programs can be characterized by the change they impose on the tax price of an … for 1972, 1982, and 1992. I find that using the actual tax prices (rather than treating school finance equalizations as … whether they impose tax prices greater than or less than one, school finance equalizations either enjoy increased spending …

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Segregated Schools and the Mobility Hypothesis : A Model of Local Government Discrimination

Margo, Robert A. - 2021

Around the turn of the century, Southern blacks lost the right to vote and discrimination against them by local government officials intensified. This paper argues that, in the case of the de jure segregated public schools attended by black children, the ability of Southern blacks to ''vote with...

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Demographic Structure and the Political Economy of Public Education

Poterba, James M. - 2021

This papers examines the relationship between demographic structure and the level of government spending on K-12 education. Panel data for the U.S. states over the 1960-1990 period suggests that an increase in the fraction of elderly residents in a jurisdiction is associated with a significant...

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Resident and Nonresident Tuition and Enrollment at Flagship State Universities

Rizzo, Michael J.; Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 2021

We address the determinants of resident and nonresident tuition and enrollment at public universities. A key explanatory variable is the share of out-of-state students enrolled under reciprocity agreements. We find that public universities use out-of-state enrollments primarily to augment...

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School Finance Reform, the Distribution of School Spending, and the Distribution of Sat Scores

Card, David; Payne, A. Abigail - 2021

In this paper we study the effects of school finance reforms on the distribution of school spending across richer and … correlation between state funding per pupil and median family income in each district. We find that states where the school … finance system was declared unconstitutional in the 1980s increased the relative funding of low-income districts. Increases in …

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Reading, Writing and Raisinets : Are School Finances Contributing to Children'S Obesity?

Anderson, Patricia M.; Butcher, Kristin F. - 2021

The proportion of adolescents in the United States who are obese has nearly tripled over the last two decades. At the same time, schools, often citing financial pressures, have given students greater access to "junk" foods, using proceeds from the sales to fund school programs. We examine...

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Monitoring Works : Getting Teachers to Come to School

Duflo, Esther; Hanna, Rema - 2021

In the rural areas of developing countries, teacher absence is a widespread problem. This paper tests whether a simple incentive program based on teacher presence can reduce teacher absence, and whether it has the potential to lead to more teaching activities and better learning. In 60 informal...

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Public School Finance in a General Equilibrium Tiebout World : Equalization Programs, Peer Effects and Private School Vouchers

Nechyba, Thomas J. - 2021

This paper uses computable general equilibrium simulations to investigate the effect of private school vouchers. It improves on past computational approaches by (i) endogenizing the funding of public schools through the modelling of an explicit political process at the school district level;...

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The Distributional Effects of Property Tax Constraints on School Districts

Sorensen, Lucy; Kim, Youngsung; Hwang, Moontae - 2021

Many states in recent decades enacted laws that limit the collection of property taxes. This study examines the impacts of New York State’s 2011 tax cap on education revenues and student achievement. We use an instrumental variables approach with 663 school districts from 2006 to 2016. We find...

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Reforming Connecticut’s Education Aid Formula to Achieve Equity and Adequacy across School Districts

Zhao, Bo - 2021

Connecticut’s public K–12 education system relies heavily on local funding, resulting in substantial disparities between affluent districts and low-income districts with a large proportion of socioeconomically disadvantaged students who are more costly to educate. Despite recent...

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