Pennies from Heaven? Using Exogeneous Tax Variation to Identify Effects of School Resources on Pupil Achievements

Despite important policy implications associated with the allocation of education resources, evidence on the effectiveness of school inputs remains inconclusive. In part, this is due to endogenous allocation; families sort themselves non-randomly into school districts and school districts allocate money based in order to compensate (or reinforce) differences in child abilities, which leaves estimates of school input effects likely to be biased.[...]

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Year of publication:	2008-06-01
Authors:	Haegeland, Torbjørn ; Raaum, Oddbjørn ; Salvanes, Kjell G.
Institutions:	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>
Subject:	Steuer \| Öffentlichkeitsarbeit \| Kind \| Schulbildung \| school resources

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Series:	Universität Bonn - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA) - Discussion Papers in 2008 Discussion Paper ; 3561 (2008)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Classification:	I21 - Analysis of Education ; I28 - Government Policy ; J00 - Labor and Demographic Economics. General ; Sociological and psychological aspects ; Ergonomic job analysis ; Individual Working Papers, Preprints ; Norway
Source:	USB Cologne (business full texts)

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