In our current challenging budgetary environment, school closures remain a potentially attractive choice. With a large … panel of Illinois schools from 1991 to 2005, I investigate which factors contribute to school closures. Among elementary …. Administrators may claim that low enrolments and high spending motivate school closures, but in Illinois, that is not the whole story …

hypothesis of a Leviathan-like school administration. However, research for Switzerland using a time-series panel of sub …-federal school expenditure and class size detects no such effect. These findings are in line with previous analyses that identify …