Public finance seminar for phd students: -- The property tax -- Public production functions -- Program evaluation -- Public cost functions -- Cost indexes and pupil weights -- School district consolidation -- The demand for local public services -- State aid to local governments -- Bidding and...

"This book covers a wide range of topics in education finance. It is designed to introduce the literature on education finance to scholars and prospective scholars and can be used as a textbook for a graduate-level education finance class. The topics in the book include the incidence of the...

Public budgeting in perspective -- Budgetary decision making -- Budget organization and structure -- Economics and politics -- Taxing and spending -- National budgeting -- Budgeting in the states -- Budgeting in local units of government -- Budget execution and financial management -- Patterns...