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What Works and For Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across The U.S

Biasi, Barbara; Lafortune, Julien M.; Schönholzer, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper identifies which investments in school facilities help students and are valued by homeowners. Using novel data on school district bonds, test scores, and house prices for 29 U.S. states and a research design that exploits close elections with staggered timing, we show that increased...

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Competitive Effects of Charter Schools

Figlio, David N.; Hart, Cassandra M. D.; Karbownik, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging three alternative identification strategies, we explore how increase in access to charter schools in twelve districts in Florida affects students remaining in traditional public schools (TPS). We...

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Marginal Returns to Public Universities

Mountjoy, Jack - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

education in the four-year sector, is 12 percentage points more likely to earn a bachelor's degree, and eventually earns 5 … for the marginal students themselves, 10-12 percent for society (which must pay for the additional education), and 3 …

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Experimentation in Federal Systems

Callander, Steven - 2013

We present a model where heterogeneous districts choose both whether to experiment and the policies to experiment with. Since districts learn from each other, the first-best requires that policy experiments converge so that innovations are useful also for neighbors. However, the equilibrium...

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Organizing a Kingdom

Angelucci, Charles; Meraglia, Simone; Voigtländer, Nico - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We develop a framework that examines the organizational challenges faced by central rulers governing large territories, where administrative power needs to be delegated to local elites. We describe how economic change can motivate rulers to empower different elites and emphasize the interaction...

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The Political Agenda Effect and State Centralization

Acemoglu, Daron - 2016

national state based on the political agenda effect. State centralization induces citizens of different backgrounds, interests … investments in conflict capacity. In the absence of state centralization, citizens do not necessarily band together because of … social democratic party may sometimes induce state centralization (by removing the commitment value of a non …

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Financing Infrastructure in the Shadow of Expropriation

Acharya, Viral V.; Parlatore, Cecilia; Sundaresan, Suresh M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We examine the optimal financing of infrastructure when governments have limited financial commitment and can expropriate rents from private sector firms that manage infrastructure. While private firms need incentives to implement projects well, governments need incentives to limit...

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U.S. School Finance : Resources and Outcomes

Handel, Danielle V.; Hanushek, Eric Alan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The impact of school resources on student outcomes was first raised in the 1960s and has been controversial since then. This issue enters into the decision making on school finance in both legislatures and the courts. The historical research found little consistent or systematic relationship of...

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Distributional Weights in Economic Analysis

Hahn, Robert William; Muller, Nicholas Z. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The use of distributional weights in economic analysis is receiving increasing attention in both research and policy circles. This paper examines the extent to which distributional weights affect economic analysis of public good provision. We make two contributions. First, we present a model...

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Voting over Public Goods

Samwick, Andrew; Wang, Sophie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper analyzes the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the total provision of public goods in a framework in which consumers who may make such voluntary contributions to public goods via CSR are also voters who decide on the level of taxes to finance publicly provided public...

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