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The Effects of Campus Shooting on School Finance and Student Composition

Yang, Lang Kate; Gopalan, Maithreyi - 2021

Between 1999 and 2018, 210 shootings have occurred on public school campuses in the United States. Campus shootings call for increased investments in security and student support, which may crowd out instructional resources. Exposure to shootings may also cause students, especially those from...

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School Spending and Student Outcomes : Evidence from Revenue Limit Elections in Wisconsin

Baron, E. Jason - 2020

This study examines the impact of school spending on student outcomes. State-imposed revenue limits cap the total amount of revenue that a school district in Wisconsin can raise, unless the district holds a local referendum asking voters to exceed the cap. Importantly, Wisconsin law requires...

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Trends in Public Expenditure on Elementary Education in India

Dongre, Ambrish A. - 2016

education, is likely to decline further. Analysing broad trends in total and per student spending on elementary education across … differently on elementary education …

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No Quick Fix for Equity and Excellence : The Virtues of Incremental Shifts in Education Federalism

Robinson, Kimberly Jenkins - 2022

identifies the potential costs to this shift in education federalism as well as the potential benefits. It concludes by noting … for an incremental shift to education federalism that would drive the states toward more effective funding systems …

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What Works and For Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across The U.S

Biasi, Barbara; Lafortune, Julien M.; Schönholzer, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper identifies which investments in school facilities help students and are valued by homeowners. Using novel data on school district bonds, test scores, and house prices for 29 U.S. states and a research design that exploits close elections with staggered timing, we show that increased...

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What works and for whom? : effectiveness and efficiency of school capital investments across the U.S.

Biasi, Barbara; Lafortune, Julien; Schönholzer, David - 2024

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What works and for whom? : effectiveness and efficiency of school capital investments across the U.S.

Biasi, Barbara; Lafortune, Julien; Schönholzer, David - 2024

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The Value of School Facilities: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design

Ferreira, Fernando V.; Rothstein, Jesse; Cellini, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of voter-approved school bond issues on school district balance sheets, local housing prices, and student achievement. We draw on the unique characteristics of California's system of school finance to obtain clean identification of bonds' causal effects, comparing...

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Explorations into the Production of State Government Services: Education, Welfare and Hospitals

Zlate, Andrei; Tresch, Richard W. - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2007

education, public welfare, and state psychiatric hospitals—during the last half of the twentieth century. We estimate translog … the negative portion of its marginal cost curve. Second, the analysis of technical change indicates that public education … short-run productivity growth in education matches the performance of the private sector, as technical regression is more …

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Suburbanization, Demographic Change and the Consequences for School Finance

Figlio, David; Fletcher, Deborah - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

public education has led to mixed results to date. One potential reason behind this is that the share of elderly in a …

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