This paper uses computable general equilibrium simulations to investigate the effect of private school vouchers. It … explicit political process at the school district level; (ii) embedding the private/public school choice in a Tiebout model in … which agents also choose between communities that provide different public school/property tax packages; and (iii) allowing …

A school finance equalization program established in Mississippi in 1920 failed to help many of the state's Black … students - an outcome that was typical in the segregated U.S. South (Horace Mann Bond, 1934). In majority-Black school … Black schools, those in majority-Black districts continued to experience extremely low - and even worsening - school funding …

"Accountability mandates" -- the explicit linking of school funding, resources, and autonomy to student performance on … performance of "numerically significant subgroups" within a school was to reduce the relative resources of schools attended by … schools. In the 2000 school year, the average value of the award was about 60 dollars per student and 50 dollars in 2001 …

This paper analyzes the impact of voter-approved school bond issues on school district balance sheets, local housing … prices, and student achievement. We draw on the unique characteristics of California's system of school finance to obtain … clean identification of bonds' causal effects, comparing districts in which school bond referenda passed or failed by narrow …

allocation, and monitoring and management of school performance. However, in a baseline survey we found that people were not …

8th grade. We observe that the eventual high school graduates in this group have much better postsecondary education …

In 1994 the state of Michigan implemented one of the most comprehensive school finance reforms undertaken to date in …

An important element in considering school finance policies is that households are not passive. Instead they respond to … residential location and community choice, households base optimizing decisions on commuting costs, school quality, and land rents … income and tastes for schools. This model is used to analyze a series of conventional policy experiments, including school …

students at the beginning and end of the school day. The time and date stamps on the photographs were used to track teacher …