Policy makers and scholars have long been interested in teacher attrition, particularly in poor, urban schools. We investigate the determinants of teacher attrition in five large metropolitan areas in upstate New York. We focus on a teacher's decision to leave a school district or to leave...

The federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) imposes new requirements on state education systems and provides additional education funding. This article estimates education cost functions, predicts the spending required to support NCLB standards, and compares this spending with the funding...

Can "matched" sorting, the assignment of high-income households to communities with high-quality public services, be sustained by competition alone? This article revises an analysis of this question and extends this analysis to consider a simple case of zoning. This revision reveals that housing...