Education Finance and Policy

2006 - 2025

Current editor(s): Stephanie Riegg Cellini and Randall Reback

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Volume 7, issue 4, 2012

Increasing Time to Baccalaureate Degree in the United States pp. 375-424

John Bound, Michael Lovenheim and Sarah Turner

Who Comes Back? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Reentry Behavior of Exiting Teachers pp. 425-454

Jason A. Grissom and Michelle Reininger

Does Charter Status Determine Preferences? Comparing the Hiring Preferences of Charter and Traditional Public School Principals pp. 455-488

Marisa Cannata and Mimi Engel

The Scope for Promoting Equal Opportunity in Education: Evidence from the Kibbutz pp. 489-515

Moshe Justman and Yaakov Gilboa

Volume 7, issue 3, 2012

The Qualifications and Classroom Performance of Teachers Moving to Charter Schools pp. 233-268

Celeste Carruthers

Effective Schools: Teacher Hiring, Assignment, Development, and Retention pp. 269-304

Susanna Loeb, Demetra Kalogrides and Tara Béteille

The Medium-Run Effects of Florida’s Test-Based Promotion Policy pp. 305-330

Marcus A. Winters and Jay P. Greene

Efficiency-Based Funding for Public Four-Year Colleges and Universities pp. 331-359

Thomas R. Sexton, Christie L. Comunale and Stephen C. Gara

Policy Evaluation versus Explanation of Outcomes in Education: That Is, Is It the Teachers? Is It the Parents? pp. 360-374

Richard Startz

Volume 7, issue 2, 2012

The Value of Experiments in Education pp. 107-123

Grover J. Whitehurst

Random Assignment within Schools: Lessons Learned from the Teach for America Experiment pp. 124-142

Steven Glazerman

Improving the Productivity of Education Experiments: Lessons from a Randomized Study of Need-Based Financial Aid pp. 143-169

Douglas Harris and Sara Goldrick-Rab

POINT/CounterPOINT: The View from the Trenches of Education Policy Research pp. 170-202

Dale Ballou, Matthew Springer, Daniel F. McCaffrey, J. R. Lockwood, Brian M. Stecher, Laura Hamilton and Matthew Pepper

The Measures of Effective Teaching Project: An Experiment to Build Evidence and Trust pp. 203-218

Steven M. Cantrell

Limitations of Experiments in Education Research pp. 219-232

Diane Schanzenbach

Volume 7, issue 1, 2012

In Light of the Limitations of Data-Driven Decision Making pp. 1-7

Susanna Loeb

Do More Effective Teachers Earn More Outside the Classroom? pp. 8-43

Matthew M. Chingos and Martin R. West

A Policy Analysis of the Federal Growth Model Pilot Program's Measures of School Performance: The Florida Case pp. 44-73

Michael J. Weiss and Henry May

Ability Sorting and the Importance of College Quality to Student Achievement: Evidence from Community Colleges pp. 74-105

Kevin Stange

Volume 6, issue 4, 2011

Lifting All Boats? Finance Litigation, Education Resources, and Student Needs in the Post-Rose Era pp. 455-485

David P. Sims

When the Bell Tolls: The Effects of School Starting Times on Academic Achievement pp. 486-507

Peter Hinrichs

School Finance Reform: Do Equalized Expenditures Imply Equalized Teacher Salaries? pp. 508-536

Meg Streams, J. Butler, Joshua Cowen, Jacob Fowles and Eugenia Toma

The Impact of Debt Limitations and Referenda Requirements on the Cost of School District Bond Issues pp. 537-556

Mary H. Harris and Vincent G. Munley

A Review of Gifted and Talented Education in the United States pp. 557-582

Rachana Bhatt

Volume 6, issue 3, 2011

The Wages of Failure: New Evidence on School Retention and Long-Run Outcomes pp. 293-322

Philip Babcock and Kelly Bedard

Local Demand for a School Choice Policy: Evidence from the Washington Charter School Referenda pp. 323-353

Sean Corcoran and Christiana Stoddard

Are Teachers' Unions Really to Blame? Collective Bargaining Agreements and Their Relationships with District Resource Allocation and Student Performance in California pp. 354-398

Katharine O. Strunk

Teacher Mobility, School Segregation, and Pay-Based Policies to Level the Playing Field pp. 399-438

Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen Ladd and Jacob Vigdor

Teacher Layoffs: An Empirical Illustration of Seniority versus Measures of Effectiveness pp. 439-454

Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, Susanna Loeb and James Wyckoff

Volume 6, issue 2, 2011

Impact of School Finance Reform on Resource Equalization and Academic Performance: Evidence from Michigan pp. 137-167

Joydeep Roy

Funding Special Education by Capitation: Evidence from State Finance Reforms pp. 168-201

Elizabeth Dhuey and Stephen Lipscomb

School Choice and the Branding of Catholic Schools pp. 202-245

Julie R. Trivitt and Patrick J. Wolf

More Choice, Less Crime pp. 246-266

Angela Dills and Rey Hernández-Julián

What Do AEFA Members Say? Summary of Results of an Education Finance and Policy Survey pp. 267-292

Leanna Stiefel, Amy Schwartz and Anne Rotenberg

Volume 6, issue 1, 2011

The Supply's the Limit: Meeting the Challenge of Knowledge and Capacity Constraints to Significant Educational Improvement pp. 1-17

Martin Orland

Does Student Sorting Invalidate Value-Added Models of Teacher Effectiveness? An Extended Analysis of the Rothstein Critique pp. 18-42

Cory Koedel and Julian R. Betts

Can You Recognize an Effective Teacher When You Recruit One? pp. 43-74

Jonah E. Rockoff, Brian A. Jacob, Thomas J. Kane and Doug Staiger

Risk Aversion and Support for Merit Pay: Theory and Evidence from Minnesota's Q Comp Program pp. 75-104

Carl Nadler and Matthew Wiswall

Long-Run Trends in School Productivity: Evidence from Australia pp. 105-135

Andrew Leigh and Christopher Ryan

Volume 5, issue 4, 2010

Introduction to “Rethinking Teacher Retirement Benefit Systems” pp. 393-401

Robert M. Costrell and Michael Podgursky

An Introduction to Teacher Retirement Benefits pp. 402-437

Janet S. Hansen

Retiree Health Plans for Public School Teachers after GASB 43 and 45 pp. 438-462

Robert L. Clark

Labor Market Effects of Pensions and Implications for Teachers pp. 463-491

Leora Friedberg and Sarah Turner

Teacher Pension Incentives, Retirement Behavior, and Potential for Reform in Arkansas pp. 492-518

Robert M. Costrell and Josh B. McGee

Distribution of Benefits in Teacher Retirement Systems and Their Implications for Mobility pp. 519-557

Robert M. Costrell and Michael Podgursky

Scrambling the Nest Egg: How Well Do Teachers Understand Their Pensions, and What Do They Think about Alternative Pension Structures? pp. 558-586

Michael DeArmond and Dan Goldhaber

“But the Pension Fund Was Just SITTING There …”: The Politics of Teacher Retirement Plans pp. 587-616

Frederick M. Hess and Juliet P. Squire

Public Pension Plan Reform: The Legal Framework pp. 617-646

Amy B. Monahan

Volume 5, issue 3, 2010

How Valuable Is the Gift of Time? The Factors That Drive the Birth Date Effect in Education pp. 247-277

Justin Smith

Hire Today, Gone Tomorrow: New Teacher Classroom Assignments and Teacher Mobility pp. 278-316

Li Feng

Disabled Peers and Academic Achievement pp. 317-348

Jane Friesen, Ross Hickey and Brian Krauth

A Distributional Difference-in-Difference Evaluation of the Response of School Expenditures to Reforms and Tax Limits pp. 349-377

Daniel McMillen and Larry D. Singell

Education Inspectorate Systems in New Zealand and the Netherlands pp. 378-392

Helen Ladd

Volume 5, issue 2, 2010

Noninstructional Spending Improves Noncognitive Outcomes: Discontinuity Evidence from a Unique Elementary School Counselor Financing System pp. 105-137

Randall Reback

Do Lower Lender Subsidies Reduce Guaranteed Student Loan Supply? pp. 138-176

D. Andrew Austin

The Influence of Performance-Based Accountability on the Distribution of Teacher Salary Increases pp. 177-199

Robert Bifulco

Bilingual Education and English Proficiency pp. 200-227

Christopher Jepsen

Mix and Match: What Principals Really Look for When Hiring Teachers pp. 228-246

Douglas Harris, Stacey A. Rutledge, William K. Ingle and Cynthia C. Thompson

Volume 5, issue 1, 2010

Making Research in Education Finance and Policy Matter Now pp. 1-13

Amy Schwartz

Merit-Based Scholarships and Student Effort pp. 14-35

Rey Hernández-Julián

Skills, Schools, and Credit Constraints: Evidence from Massachusetts pp. 36-53

Joshua Goodman

Value Added to What? How a Ceiling in the Testing Instrument Influences Value-Added Estimation pp. 54-81

Cory Koedel and Julian Betts

Nonmonetary Compensation in the Public Teacher Labor Market pp. 82-103

Daniel Player