affected by the Great Recession. Using a rich panel data set of New York State school districts and a trend-shift analysis, we … in that they shed light on how recessions and fiscal policy can affect school finance dynamics, and provide important …

This paper analyzes the effect of school vouchers on student sorting — defined as a flight to private schools by high …-income and committed public-school students — and whether vouchers can be designed to reduce or eliminate it. Much of the ….S. voucher programs require a private school to accept all students unless it is oversubscribed and to pick students randomly if …

This paper examines the impact of vouchers in general and voucher design in particular on public school performance. It … affect public school incentives differently and induce different responses from them. It analyzes two voucher programs in the … improvement will exceed that under the Milwaukee-type program. Using school-level scores from Florida and Wisconsin and a …

This paper analyzes the effect of school vouchers on student sorting — defined as a flight to private schools by high …-income and committed public-school students — and whether vouchers can be designed to reduce or eliminate it. Much of the ….S. voucher programs require a private school to accept all students unless it is oversubscribed and to pick students randomly if …

school districts. However, the stimulus funds were drawn down beginning in 2011, at a time when state and local revenues were … still under pressure. In this paper, we use a detailed panel data set of all school districts in New Jersey for the period … 1999 through 2012 and analyze the impact of this series of events on New Jersey school finances using a trend …