State Higher Education Performance Funding: Data, Outcomes, and Policy Implications*

By David A. Tandberg, Nicholas W. Hillman. Journal of Education Finance, 2014

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As states explore strategies for increasing educational attainment levels, attention is being paid to performance funding. This study asks, “Does the introduction of performance funding programs affect degree completion among participating states?” Utilizing a quasi-experimental research design we find limited evidence that performance funding significantly increases baccalaureate degree completions.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education

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Use of Quasi-Experimental Research Designs in Education Research: Growth, Promise, and Challenges (2020, background): “…of multiple state PBF policies largely confirm null or negative findings from individual state studies for associate’s (Li & Kennedy, 2018; Tandberg et al., 2014) and bachelor’s (e.g., Tandberg & Hillman, 2014) degree production and an increase in short-term certificates (Li & Kennedy, 2018).”
Performance-Based Funding in American Higher Education: A Systematic Synthesis of the Intended and Unintended Consequences (2020, background): “…showed positive impacts of PBF on intended outcomes: one showed modest positive effects on bachelor’s degrees 7 years after policy implementation (Tandberg & Hillman, 2014), and the other showed positive impacts on STEM degree completion when states explicitly linked performance funds to STEM…”
Performance Funding in Higher Education: Do Financial Incentives Impact College Completions? (2014, background): “…opposition leveled by colleges and Figure 1. performance-based funding models for public four-year colleges and universities. source: tandberg & hillman (2014). source: Authors (under review) currently operating performance funding (11) discontinued performance funding (9) never adopted…”
An Examination of the (Un)Intended Consequences of Performance Funding in Higher Education (2017, background): “…related to improvements in the number of degrees awarded (Hillman et al., 20151; Hillman, Tandberg, & Gross, 2014; Rutherford & Rabovsky, 2014; Sanford & Hunter, 2011; Shin, 2010; Shin & Milton, 2004; Tandberg & Hillman, 2014; Tandberg, Hillman, & Barakat, 2014; Volkwein & Tandberg, 2008).”
Evaluating the Impacts of “New” Performance Funding in Higher Education (2015, background): “This approach is an important starting point for understanding performance funding as it documents which states adopted the policy and for what years (Tandberg & Hillman, 2014; Tandberg, Hillman, & Barakat, 2014).”