School Finance Reform, the Distribution of School Spending, and the Distribution of Sat Scores

By David Card. 2002

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

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Incentives to Improve Teaching : Lessons from Latin America (2005, background): “For example, while Card and Payne (2002) find evidence that equalization of educational expenditures across U.”
How Did the Increase in Economic Inequality between 1970 and 1990 Affect Children’s Educational Attainment?1 (2001, background): “…policies, which can thereby affect spending on schools.9 Nationwide, per pupil expenditures for elementary and secondary schooling have increased since 1970, and spending has become more equal across school districts in many states (Murray, Evans, and Schwab 1998; Card and Payne 1998).”
The Efficiency Consequences of Local Revenue Equalization: Tax Competition and Tax Distortions (2002, background): “equalization formula is the basis of local school district finance in a number of US states ( Card and Payne, 2002 ).”
A re-examination of welfare states and inequality in rich nations: How in-kind transfers and indirect taxes change the story (2006, background): “This is a strong assumption, which, based upon scattered evidence for particular countries (Card & Payne, 1998; LeGrand, 1978; Wilson, 2000) is almost certainly false.”
The Effect of Rising Income Inequality on Taxation and Public Expenditures: Evidence from U.S. Municipalities and School Districts, 1970–2000 (2013, background): “The first row of table 8 shows that states under court order to reform their system of school finance provide a higher level of state transfers per pupil (see also Card & Payne, 2002).”
Does Competition Among Public Schools Benefit Students and Taxpayers? Comment (2007, positive): “…Hoxby’s specification (using only public school students) that includes a control for an inverse Mill’s ratio computed from the MSA private enrollment rate, in the spirit of normal-distribution selection corrections (Reuben Gronau 1974; James J. Heckman 1979; David Card and A. Abigail Payne 2002).”
Would Smaller Classes Help Close the Black-White Achievement Gap? (2001, background): “Past studies of state-level data have shown that average test scores tend to decline when more students take a college entrance exam, most likely because the marginal test takers are weaker students than the average student (see, e.g., Card and Payne, 1998).”
Does Competition Among Public Schools Benefit Students and Taxpayers? A Comment on Hoxby (2000) (2005, methodology): “…I have estimated a version of Hoxby’s specification (using only public school students) that includes a control for an inverse Mill’s ratio computed from the MSA private enrollment rate, in the spirit of normal-distribution selection corrections (Gronau, 1974; Heckman, 1979; Card and Payne, 2002).”