School Finance
Working Papers
Books: Books, Chapters, Reviews
Education reformsIn P. Levine & D. Zimmerman (Eds.), Targeting Investments in Children: Fighting Poverty When Resources are Limited. National Bureau of Economic Research, pp. 145-180. 2010.
Getting beyond the rhetoric: Surveying the evidence of Vouchers and Tax CreditsIn H. Ladd & E. Fiske (Eds.), Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy, New York, NY: RoutledgeFalmer, pp. 447-466. 2007.
School finance reform in Michigan: Evaluating Proposal AIn J. Yinger & W. Duncombe (Eds.), Helping Children Left Behind: State Aid and the Pursuit of Educational Equity, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 215-250. 2004.
Comments on, "Public school finance and urban school policy: General versus partial equilibrium analysis"In W. G. Gale & J. R. Pack (Eds.), Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, pp. 176-180. 2003.
K-12 education in MichiganIn C. Ballard, P. N. Courant, D. C. Drake, R. Fischer & E. R. Gerber (Eds.), Michigan at the Millennium: A Benchmark and Analysis of its Fiscal and Economic Structure, 2003.
Where does new money go? Evidence from litigation and a lotteryIn W. Fowler (Ed), Developments in School Finance, 1999-2000, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, 2002.
Local revenue options for K-12 educationIn J. Sonstelie & P. Richardson (Eds.), School Finance and California's Master Plan for Education, pp. 125-154. 2001.
The property tax and education finance: CommentaryIn W. E. Oates (Ed.), Property Taxation and Local Government Finance: Essays in Honor of C. Lowell Harriss, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy: Cambridge MA, pp. 236-241. 2001.
How teachers' choices affect what a dollar can buy: Wages and quality in K-12 schoolingThe Teacher Workforce: Symposium Proceedings from the Education Finance Research Consortium, 2001.
Reports
The Development of a Teacher Salary Parcel Tax: The Quality Teacher and Education Act in San FranciscoPolicy Analysis for California Education, 2009.
The development of a teacher salary parcel tax: The quality teacher and education act in San FranciscoPolicy Analysis for California Education, 2009.
Funding student learning: How to align education resources with student learning goalsSchool Finance Redesign Project, Center on Reinventing Public Education: University of Washington, 2008.
District dollars: Painting a picture of revenues and expenditures in California’s school districtsGetting Down to Facts Project: Stanford University, 2007.
A review of state teacher policies: What are they, what are their effects, and what are their implications for school finance? Getting Down to Facts Project: Stanford University, 2007.
Curbing or Facilitating Inequality? Law, Collective Bargaining, and Teacher Assignment Among Schools in CaliforniaGetting Down to Facts, 2007.
Bringing the State and Locals Together: Developing Effective Data Systems in California School DistrictsGetting Down to Facts, 2007.
Efficiency and Adequacy in California School Finance: A Professional Judgment ApproachGetting Down to Facts, 2007.
Aligning School Finance with Academic Standards: A Weighted-Student Formula Based on a Survey of PractitionersGetting Down to Facts, 2007.
Equality and Adequacy in the State’s Provision of Education: Mapping the Conceptual LandscapeGetting Down to Facts, 2007.
The Evolution of California’s State School Finance System and Implications from Other StatesGetting Down to Facts, 2007.
Teacher Compensation and Local Labor Market Conditions in California: Implications for School FundingGetting Down to Facts, 2007.
Do Non-School Resources Substitute for School Resources? A Review of the EvidenceGetting Down to Facts, 2007.
Charter Schools in California: A Review of their Autonomy and Resources Allocation PracticesGetting Down to Facts, 2007.
Federal financial support for adequacy and equity in school financePrepared for the Rethinking Rodriguez Conference, University of California, Berkeley, 2006.
Journal Articles
Getting Down to Facts: School Finance and Governance in CaliforniaEducation Finance and Policy, 3(1), pp. 1-19. 2008.
What do cost functions tell us about the cost of an adequate education? Peabody Journal of Education, 83(2), pp. 198-223. 2008.
Expense preference and student achievement in school districtsEastern Economic Journal, 31(1), pp. 23-44. 2005.
The Fate of New Funding: Evidence from Massachusetts' Education Finance ReformsEducational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 26(3), pp. 199-215. 2004.
Does merit pay reward good teachers? Evidence from a randomized experimentJournal of Policy Analysis and Management, 23(3), pp. 471-488. 2004.
Estimating the effects of school finance reform: A framework for a federalist systemJournal of Public Economics, 80(2), pp. 225-247. 2001.
Examining the link between teacher wages and student outcomes: The importance of alternative labor market opportunities and non-pecuniary variationReview of Economics and Statistics, 82(3), pp. 393-408. 2000.
The capitalization of education finance reformsJournal of Law and Economics, 43(1), pp. 185-214. 2000.
Centralization of school finance in MichiganJournal of Policy Analysis and Management, 16(1), pp. 114-136. 1997.
The effect of measured school inputs on academic achievement: Evidence from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s birth cohortsReview of Economics and Statistics, 78(4), pp. 653-664. 1996.
Michigan’s recent school finance reforms: A preliminary reportAmerican Economic Review, 85(2), pp. 372-377. 1995.
