Jackson, C. Kirabo; Johnson, Rucker; Persico, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
The school finance reforms (SFRs) that began in the early 1970s and accelerated in the 1980s caused some of the most dramatic changes in the structure of K-12 education spending in U.S. history. We analyze the effects of these reforms on the level and distribution of school district spending, as...