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A New Model for Equitable and Efficient Resource Allocation to Schools : The Israeli Case
BenDavid-Hadar, Iris - 2010
This paper sets out a new budget allocation formula for schools, designed to achieve a more equitable distribution of … educational achievement. In addition to needs-based elements, the suggested composite allocation formula includes an improvement … in the Educational Achievement Distribution, or IEAD). The development of the budget allocation formula is demonstrated …
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Do School Budgets Matter? The Effect of Budget Referenda on Student Performance
Lee, Kyung-Gon - 2014
This paper analyzes how changes in school expenditures affect dropout rates and standardized test scores based on data from 465 school districts in New York during the 2003/04 to the 2008/09 school years. Past traditional regression approaches show inconsistent results of school expenditures...
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Does Additional Spending Help Urban Schools? An Evaluation Using Boundary Discontinuities
Gibbons, Stephen - 2014
Improving the educational attainment of disadvantaged students in urban schools is a priority for policy worldwide, but existing research is equivocal about the effectiveness of additional funding for achieving this objective. This study exploits anomalies in the spatial dimension of school...
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Politics Before Pupils? Electoral Cycles and School Resources in India
Fagernäs, Sonja - 2014
Primary education in India is a development question of a unique magnitude, and the delivery of education by Indian states is often suspected to be marred by political haggling and corruption. Using rich administrative school-level panel data across Indian states, we test for electoral cycles in...
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School Accountability : Can We Reward Schools and Avoid Pupil Selection?
Ooghe, Erwin - 2013
School accountability schemes require measures of school performance, and these measures are in practice often based on pupil test scores. It is well-known that insufficiently correcting these test scores for pupil characteristics may provide incentives for inefficient pupil selection. We show...
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Resources and Standards in Urban Schools
Machin, Stephen J.; McNally, Sandra; Meghir, Costas - 2021
Despite being central to government education policy in many countries, there remains considerable debate about whether resources matter for pupil outcomes. In this paper we look at this question by considering an English education policy initiative - Excellence in Cities - which has been a...
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Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market
Chiappori, Pierre-Andre; Iyigun, Murat; Weiss, Yoram - 2021
We present a model with pre-marital schooling investment, endogenous marital matching and spousal specialization in homework and market production. Investment in schooling raises ages and generates two kinds of returns in our framework: a labor-market return and a marriage-market return because...
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Does Money Matter for Schools?
Holmlund, Helena; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - 2021
There is considerable disagreement in the academic literature about whether raising school expenditure improves educational outcomes. Yet changing the level of resources is one of the key policy levers open to governments. In the UK, school expenditure has increased by about 40 per cent in real...
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Inequality of Educational Opportunity in India : Changes Over Time and Across States
Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2010
This paper documents the extent of inequality of educational opportunity in India spanning the period 1983-2004 using National Sample Survey (NSS) data. We build on recent developments in the literature that has operationalized concepts in the inequality of opportunity theory (including...
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The Measurement of Educational Inequality : Achievement and Opportunity
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2011
This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...
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