Charter schools have been one of the most important dimensions of recent school reform measures in the United States … spread of charter schools in the 1990s. Using data on private school enrollment from decennial censuses and biennial National … Center for Education Statistics private school surveys, and using a fixed-effects as well as instrumental-variables strategy …

Charter schools have been one of the most important dimensions of recent school reform measures in the United States … spread of charter schools in the 1990s. Using data on private school enrollment from biennial National Center for Education … Statistics private school surveys, and using a fixed-effects as well as instrumental-variables strategy that exploits exogenous …

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 …

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 … the Milwaukee-type program. Using school-level scores from Florida and Wisconsin and a difference …

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 …

programs on public schools typically focuses on student and mean school scores. This paper tries to go inside the black box to … evidence that they did respond to incentives. Using highly disaggregated school-level data, a difference …

This study examines the medium-term effects of the Great Recession on school finances in New Jersey using detailed … school district panel data and an interrupted time series analysis. The authors find that the recession led to sharp cuts in … school funding and expenditure, in spite of the federal stimulus. These cuts deepened as the stimulus abated. An analysis of …