outcomes. Using a new longitudinal data set on all non-Cook County Illinois schools, we examine the determinants of high school … Illinois State Board of Education, the Census Bureau, the Illinois Department of Revenue, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics …

efficiency. We discuss the empirical implementation of the estimator and apply it to the Illinois re-employment bonus experiment. …

between incarceration and employment rates for former female state prisoners from Illinois. Our analysis indicates that …

panel of Illinois schools from 1991 to 2005, I investigate which factors contribute to school closures. Among elementary …. Administrators may claim that low enrolments and high spending motivate school closures, but in Illinois, that is not the whole story …