In 1994 the state of Michigan implemented one of the most comprehensive school finance reforms undertaken to date in … any of the states. Understanding the effects of the reform is thus of value in informing other potential reform … initiatives. In addition, the reform and associated changes in the economic environment provide an opportunity to assess whether a …

In 1994 the state of Michigan implemented one of the most comprehensive school finance reforms undertaken to date in … any of the states. Understanding the effects of the reform is thus of value in informing other potential reform … initiatives. In addition, the reform and associated changes in the economic environment provide an opportunity to assess whether a …

in municipalities. The results reveal a substantial equalization of school resources: before the reform rich … municipalities had spent significantly more on education than poor ones, while after the reform no difference in school spending can …, suggesting that inequalities in school quality were hardly affected by the reform. …

accountability system's ranking of schools based on performance measures, and of a unique school level expenditure data set, to make … causal estimates of the effect of being ranked as "low-performing" on school spending decisions. The results indicate that …

We study the effects of increased school spending in rural American school districts by leveraging the introduction and … small and isolated school districts, increased spending in eligible districts by 2% annually and that districts primarily …

This paper explores for economists how the school-finance litigation movement, which began with Serrano v. Priest in … state that loses to reform-minded plaintiffs is distinctly different from a state that succeeds in defending its system. I … describe numerous instances in which states have attempted to head off defeat in the courts by conceding to reform-demands by …