8th grade. We observe that the eventual high school graduates in this group have much better postsecondary education …

This paper uses computable general equilibrium simulations to investigate the effect of private school vouchers. It … explicit political process at the school district level; (ii) embedding the private/public school choice in a Tiebout model in … which agents also choose between communities that provide different public school/property tax packages; and (iii) allowing …

A school finance equalization program established in Mississippi in 1920 failed to help many of the state's Black … students - an outcome that was typical in the segregated U.S. South (Horace Mann Bond, 1934). In majority-Black school … Black schools, those in majority-Black districts continued to experience extremely low - and even worsening - school funding …

This paper uses a natural experiment in Israel to assess the impact of school teaching resources and how it is used … suggest that increased school resources and students' spending more time at school and on key tasks all lead to increased … strategies. The evidence also shows that a longer school week increases the time that students spend on homework without reducing …

This paper examines how a large conditional grants program influenced school desegregation in the American South … school districts with more at risk in 1966 were more likely to desegregate just enough to receive their funds. Although the …

This paper attempts to reconcile the contradictory findings in the debate over school resources and school … state differences in school policy, however, aggregation implies clear upward bias of estimated school resource effects …. Analysis of High School and Beyond data provides strong evidence that aggregation inflates the coefficients on school resources …

Many states have or are considering implementing school finance reforms aimed at lessening inequality in the provision … quantitative effects of a major school finance reform. The policy reform examined is a change from a system of pure local finance …