This is the first study to directly examine the relationship between tax increment financing (TIF) and education … expenditures, using the state of Iowa as a case study. I find that greater use of TIF is associated with reduced education … districts expire. Finally, the negative price effect of TIF on education spending is increasingly larger for school districts in …

average literacy ability in fifth grade. © 2015 Association for Education Finance and Policy …

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importance of non-pecuniary channels of parental influence on education and provides an informative reference point on the … practical scope for reducing origin dependence in education through public policy. © 2012 Association for Education Finance and …

article should be of interest to policy makers involved in property taxes or other aspects of education finance. © 2014 … grant, STAR changes the price of education, thereby altering the incentives of voters and school officials and leading to … the initial STAR tax savings and boosted property taxes for business property. STAR did little to offset the existing …

same tools of thought and action are no less critical to the advance of education than to medicine, agriculture, psychology …, or transportation. There has been impressive growth in the use of experimental methods in education over the past decade … examining the impact of their policies and practices; better preservice training for education practitioners in the logic and …

Randomized trials are a common way to provide rigorous evidence on the impacts of education programs. This article … rewarding in terms of generating useful evidence for policy. © 2012 Association for Education Finance and Policy …

outcomes. © 2012 Association for Education Finance and Policy …