The Failure of Input-Based Schooling Policies

By Eric A. Hanushek. 2003

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Economic growth in developing countries: The role of human capital (2013, background): “This work has concentrated on how school resources and other factors influence student outcomes (Hanushek (2003)).”
Schooling Quality in Eastern Europe: Educational Production During Transition (2003, background): “The impact of a school’s resource endowment on its students’ educational achievement is a hotly disputed topic in the literature on educational production (cf. Hanushek 2003; Krueger 2003).”
The Non-Cognitive Returns to Class Size (2008, neutral): “Hanushek (2003), on the other hand, argued that class-size reductions are an “expensive and generally unproductive policy” (p. F92).”
The Impact of Homework on Student Achievement (2008, neutral): “With a few exceptions, these studies conclude that measured school 'inputs' have only limited effects on student outcomes (Hanushek, 2003).”
The Role of School Improvement in Economic Development (2007, neutral): “This work, again well-summarized elsewhere (Hanushek (2003), Wößmann (forthcoming-a)), sometimes indicates benefits of reductions and equally as frequently does not.70 From these analyses, general class size reductions do not appear to be worth their expense in terms of student outcomes.”
Leadership Effects: School Principals and Student Outcomes. (2012, background): “(Gst −Gs)(2) = (θst − θs)(2) + (γst − γs)(2) + 2(γstθst + γsθs − γsθst − γstθs) + est (6)”
Affirmative action: What do we know? (2006, neutral): “Some of these gaps also derive from family backgrounds and especially parental characteristics and behaviors that are 15 For the issue of funding at the K-12 level, see Krueger (2003) and Hanushek (2002).”
Use of Quasi-Experimental Research Designs in Education Research: Growth, Promise, and Challenges (2020, background): “org/10.2307/1602444 Jackson, C. K. (2018). Does school spending matter? The new literature on an old question. Paper presented at the Fall 2018 Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research Conference. https://works.bepress.com/c_kirabo_jackson/38/ Jackson, C. K., Johnson, R. C., & Persico, C. (2”
International Evidence on School Competition, Autonomy, and Accountability: A Review (2007, background): “By contrast, most studies usually find no consistent effect of resource endowments (cf. Hanushek, 2003; Wößmann, 2002, 2005a; Wößmann & West, 2006).”
International Guide to Student Achievement (2013, background): “These studies dis proportionately rely on aggregate state evidence, where omission of any measures of state policy differences is likely to introduce bias in the estimated effects ofspending differences (Hanushek.2003). Further, these results are not simply a peculiarity of the United States. The sa”
Does Money Matter in the Long Run? Effects of School Spending on Educational Attainment (2017, background): “An extensive literature using observational data finds contrasting evidence on the effects of spending on achievement (see Hanushek, 2003 and Krueger, 2003).”