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schools. However, schools are also increasing external fundraising efforts to supplement district budget allocations. We … document the interaction between funding policies and fundraising efforts in Chicago Public Schools (CPS). We find that … populations. We estimate that external fundraising offset the policy-induced perpupil expenditure gap between schools enrolling …
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This research examines the effect of accountability threats for low performing schools on resource allocation decisions and provides evidence that schools act with strategic behavior only when the accountability pressure is high. We used a generalization of a traditional regression discontinuity...
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Historically, most attention in public programs has been given to the resources devoted to the activity, and resources have been used to index both commitment and quality. Education differs from other areas of public expenditure because direct measures of outcomes are available, making it is...
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We study the effects of increased school spending in rural American school districts by leveraging the introduction and subsequent expansion of Wisconsin's Sparsity Aid Program. We find that the program, which provides additional state funding to small and isolated school districts, increased...
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