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References list 4:
"Educational Finance"

This reference list contains three parts:

Introductory Reading

Key References

Further Reading

Where possible, the list provides abstracts of the entries and links to the publication. If you have suggestions for additions to and improvements of this list, please let us know by email to eenee@ifo.de. [Initial list compiled by: Torberg Falch]

Introductory Reading

Fisher, Ronald C. and Leslie E. Papke (2000). Local Government Responses To Education Grants. National Tax Journal 53 (1): pp. 153-168. [abstract] [link]
Sonstelie, Jon (1982). The Welfare Cost of Free Public Schools. Journal of Political Economy 90 (4): pp. 794-808. [abstract] [link]
Sonstelie, Jon and Peter Richardson (2001). School Finance and California's Master Plan for Education. San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California. [abstract] [link]
Yinger, John (2004). Helping Children Left Behind. State Aid and the Pursuit of Educational Equity. Cambridge: MIT Press. [abstract] [link]

Key References

Barlow, Robin (1970). Efficiency Aspects of Local School Finance. Journal of Political Economy 78 (5): pp. 1028-1040. [abstract] [link]
Craig, Steven G. and Robert P. Inman (1982). Federal Aid and Public Education: An Empirical Look at the New Fiscal Federalism. The Review of Economics and Statistics 64 (4): pp. 541–552. [abstract] [link]
Falch, Torberg and Jørn Rattsø (1999). Local Public Choice of School Spending: Disaggregating the Demand Function for Educational Services. Economics of Education Review 18 (3): pp. 361-373. [abstract] [link]
Feldstein, Martin S. (1975). Wealth Neutrality and Local Choice in Public Education. American Economic Review 65 (1): pp. 75–89. [abstract] [link]
Murray, Sheila E., William N. Evans and Robert M. Schwab (1998). Education-Finance Reform and the Distribution of Education Resources. American Economic Review 88 (4): pp. 789-812. [abstract] [link]
Romer, Thomas, Howard Rosenthal and Vincent G. Munley (1992). Economic Incentives and Political Institutions: Spending and Voting in School Budget Referenda. Journal of Public Economics 49 (1): pp. 1-33. [abstract] [link]

Further Reading

2006 -

Baicker, Katherine and Nora Gordon (2006). The Effect of State Education Finance Reform on Total Local Resources Journal of Public Economics 90 (8): pp. 1519-1534. [abstract] [link]
Blankenau, W.F., Simpson, N.B., Tamljanovich, M. (2007). Public Education Expenditures, Taxation, and Growth: Linking Data to Theory.American Economic Review.Vol.97, No.2, pp. 393-397. [abstract] [link]
Boyd, Donald, Hamilton Lankford, Susanne Loeb and James Wyckoff (2008). The Impact of Assessment and Accountability on Teacher Recruitment and Retention: Are There Unintended Consequences? Public Finance Review 36(88): pp. 88-11[abstract] [link]
Chaudhary, Latika (2009). Education inputs, student performance and school finance reform in Michigan. Economics of Education Review . Vol. 28, Issue 1, Pages 90-98. [abstract] [link]
Colegrave, Andrew and Margaret J. Giles (2008). School cost functions: A meta-regression analysis. Economics of Education Review. Vol. 27, Issue 6, Pages 688-696. [abstract] [link]
Costrell, Robert, Eric Hanushek and Susanna Loeb (2008). What Do Cost Functions Tell Us About the Cost of an Adequate Education? Peabody Journal of Education 83(2): pp. 198-223 [abstract] [link]
Dearden,Lorraine , Fitzsimons,Emla , Goodman,Alissa , Kaplan,Greg (2008). Higher Education Funding Reforms in England: The Distributional Effects and the Shifting Balance of Costs. The Economic Journal. Volume 118, Issue 526, Pages F100 - F125. [abstract] [link]
Duncombe, William and John Yinger (2007). Does School District Consolidation Cut Costs?Education Finance and Policy 2 (4): pp. 341-375. [abstract] [link]
Epple, Dennis N. and Maria Marta Ferreyra (2008). School Finance Reform: Assessing General Equilibrium Effects. Journal of Public Economics 92(5-6): pp. 1326-1351 [abstract] [link]
Falch, Torberg, Marte Rønning and Bjarne Strøm (2008). A cost model of schools: School size, school structure and student composition. In N. Soguel and P. Jaccard (eds), Governance and performance of education systems. Springer: pp 247-265 [abstract] [link]
Fletcher, Deborah and Lawrence W. Kenny. (2008). The Influence of the Elderly on School Spending in a Median Voter Framework. Education Finance and Policy 3(3): pp. 283-315. [abstract] [link]
Goodman, Joshua (2010). Skills, Schools, and Credit Constraints: Evidence from Massachusetts. Education Finance and Policy 5(1): pp. 36-53. [abstract] [link]
Grob, Ueli and Stefan C. Walter (2007). Demographic Change and Public Education Spending: A Conflict between Young and Old? Education Economics 15 (3): pp. 277-292 [abstract] [link]
Hanushek, Eric (2007). Incentive-based financing of schools. Stanford University, Hoover Institution, Working Paper 14. [abstract] [link]
Hanushek, Eric (2007). Science Violated: Spending Projections and the ‘Costing Out” of an Adequate Education Courting Failure: How School Finance Lawsuits Exploit Judges’ Good Intentions and Harm Our Children San Fransisco, Stanford. [abstract] [link]
Kempkes, Gerhard (2007). Rapid demographic change and the allocation of public education resources: Evidence from East Germany. Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik 8 (2): pp. 147-164. [abstract] [link]
Ladd, Helen F. and Edward B. Fiske, eds. (2008). Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy. Routledge [abstract] [link]
Loeb, Susanna, Anthony Bryk and Eric Hanushek (2008). Getting Down to Facts: School Finance and Governance in California. Education Finance and Policy 3 (1): pp. 1-19. [abstract] [link]
Plummer, Elizabeth (2006). The effects of state funding on property tax rates and school construction. Economics of Education Review 25 (5): pp.532-542. [abstract] [link]
Rose, Heather and Jon Sonstelie (2008). An Analysis of Professional Judgments. Education Finance and Policy 3(2): pp. 165-196 [abstract] [link]
Rubenstein, Ross, Amy Ellen Schwartz, Leanna Stiefel and Hella Bel Hadj Amor (2007). From districts to schools: The distribution of resources across schools in big city school districts. Economics of Education Review 26 (5): pp. 532-545. [abstract] [link]
Sonstelie, Jon (2008). Resource Needs of California Public Schools: Results from a Survey of Teachers, Principals, and Superintendents. Education Finance and Policy 3 (1): pp.58-89. [abstract] [link]
Staira, Anthony , Terance J. Rephann and Matt Heberling (2006). Demand for public education: Evidence from a rural school district.Economics of Education Review 25 (5): pp.521-531. [abstract] [link]

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