We conduct the first national study of the causal impact of school spending and local taxes on housing prices by … pairing variation induced by school finance reforms with 25 years of national data on housing prices. Our analysis speaks to … two classic questions in economics: whether school spending matters and whether it is provided at efficient levels. The …

students at the beginning and end of the school day. The time and date stamps on the photographs were used to track teacher …

2000s, we show that the Sponsor-led takeover leads to substantial changes in the teaching body and the school personnel …, with older and lower-achieving teachers leaving the school, and new teachers joining the Sponsor-led school from …

opening of a nearby charter school. While I find small effects on turnover overall, difficult to staff schools (low …

. We show through a randomized controlled trial that school principals, i.e., school mangers, can act as leaders to improve …

This paper uses computable general equilibrium simulations to investigate the effect of private school vouchers. It … explicit political process at the school district level; (ii) embedding the private/public school choice in a Tiebout model in … which agents also choose between communities that provide different public school/property tax packages; and (iii) allowing …

A school finance equalization program established in Mississippi in 1920 failed to help many of the state's Black … students - an outcome that was typical in the segregated U.S. South (Horace Mann Bond, 1934). In majority-Black school … Black schools, those in majority-Black districts continued to experience extremely low - and even worsening - school funding …