Do federal grants boost school spending? Evidence from Title I

By N. Gordon. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education, Political Science and International Relations

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Breaking the link between poverty and low student achievement: An evaluation of Title I (2008, background): “In fact, evidence of states and cities substituting away some of their own funding to Title I schools has been found at the national level by Gordon (2004). Third, evidence of the overall effectiveness of public school spending is mixed, with some research reporting a modest positive relationship be”
Roads to Prosperity or Bridges to Nowhere? Theory and Evidence on the Impact of Public Infrastructure Investment (2012, unknown): “Specifi cally, one could replace the shock in equation (4) with obligations and instrument for obligations using the shock. One could then multiply the resulting IV coeffi cient by the ratio of GDP to obligations to obtain the multiplier on an exogenous shift in state road obligations. 26. To avoid ”
Estimating Local Fiscal Multipliers (2016, methodology): “Gordon (2004) uses the changes in local poverty estimates following the release of the 1990 Census counts to study the ypaper e¤ect in the context of Title I transfers to school districts. In contrast to Gordon (2004), our identifying variation emanates from measurement error rather than from a dec”
Incentives to Improve Teaching : Lessons from Latin America (2005, background): “Glewwe 2002; Hanushek 2002; Lee and You 2000; Loeb and Reininger 2004; Pritchett and Filmer 1997). Hanushek (2002) and Eberts and Stone (1984) document how, despite relatively dramatic increases in educational investment, student achievement remains stagnant or low.”
Using a discontinuous grant rule to identify the effect of grants on local taxes and spending (2008, background): “out highway spending when the policy endogeneity is accounted for. Gordon (2004) applies”
Does school spending matter? The new literature on an old question. (2018, unknown): “Yet another plausible explanation is that Title I funds are often offset by reductions in taxes such that overall spending levels are often largely unchanged Gordon (2004).”
The Value of School Facility Investments: Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design (2010, background): “In the empirical application we further distinguish between districts where prior spending patterns indicate that the restriction should or should not be 14 Gordon (2004) finds that flypaper effects of intergovernmental grants are short-lived, but Barrow and Rouse (2004) find persistent effects.”