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 …

taxes. Budget cuts affected many aspects of government; in this paper, we investigate whether (and how) local school … strong evidence that school districts did indeed respond to state aid cuts in the post-recession period by countering the … local funding per pupil. To further probe the school district role, we explore whether the property tax rate, which …

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 …

data on school finance indicators and an analysis of trend shifts, we examine how the Great Recession affected school … by poverty level, metropolitan area, school district size, and urban status. Affluent districts were hurt the most; the … mitigating the consequences. -- school finance ; recession ; American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ; federal stimulus …