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

the universe of housing transactions for a large sample of school districts; and (ii) using the timelines of school … of the rise in public school spending. School districts did not boost administrative costs with those additional funds … accompanied by improvements in the quality of school inputs …

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 …

schooling and, more importantly, the skills that they learn while in school. This paper examines studies published between 1990 … and 2010, in both the education literature and the economics literature, to investigate which specific school and teacher … characteristics, if any, appear to have strong positive impacts on learning and time in school. Starting with over 9,000 studies, 79 …

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

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 …

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

Many school choice proposals would enable parents to choose among public school districts in their area, though not … public school districts in metropolitan areas measured by a Herfindahl index on enrollment shares. The exogenous variation is … are concentrated among white non-Hispanics, males, and students who have a parent with at least a high school degree …

We review the theoretical, computational, and empirical research on school vouchers, with a focus on the latter. In …