What Impacts Can We Expect from School Spending Policy? Evidence from Evaluations in the United States

CK Jackson, CL Mackevicius - American Economic Journal …, 2024 - pubs.aeaweb.org
We conduct meta-analysis on a comprehensive set of studies of the impacts of US K-12
public school spending on student outcomes–estimating average marginal impacts and …

[BOOK][B] Does school spending matter? The new literature on an old question.

CK Jackson - 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
There has been a long-standing debate regarding whether increasing the financial
resources available to public schools can improve child outcomes in general and low …

The distribution of school spending impacts

CK Jackson, C Mackevicius - 2021 - nber.org
We examine all known “credibly causal” studies to explore the distribution of the causal
effects of public K-12 school spending on student outcomes in the United States. For each of …

Reducing inequality through dynamic complementarity: Evidence from Head Start and public school spending

RC Johnson, CK Jackson - American Economic Journal: Economic …, 2019 - aeaweb.org
We compare the adult outcomes of cohorts who were differentially exposed to policy-
induced changes in Head Start and K–12 spending, depending on place and year of birth …

School spending and student outcomes: Evidence from revenue limit elections in Wisconsin

EJ Baron - American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2022 - aeaweb.org
This study examines the impacts of two distinct types of school spending on student
outcomes. State-imposed revenue limits cap the total amount of revenue that a school …

US school finance: Resources and outcomes

DV Handel, EA Hanushek - 2022 - nber.org
The impact of school resources on student outcomes was first raised in the 1960s and has
been controversial since then. This issue enters into the decision making on school finance …

More is not always better. Effect of educational expenditures on education quality and social mobility in Switzerland

M Biedermann, M Häner, CA Schaltegger - European Journal of Political …, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the past 20 years, per-student spending on compulsory education in Switzerland has
risen by 52 percent in real terms. However, per-pupil expenditures vary significantly across …

Public investments and class gaps in parents' developmental expenditures

MI Jackson, D Schneider - American Sociological Review, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Families and governments are the primary sources of investment in children, providing
access to basic resources and other developmental opportunities. Recent research …

Contexts of Convenience: Generalizing from Published Evaluations of School Finance Policies

DV Handel, EA Hanushek - Evaluation Review, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent attention to the causal identification of spending impacts provides improved
estimates of spending outcomes in a variety of circumstances, but the estimates are …

Revisiting educational (in) equity: Measuring educational Gini coefficients for Israeli high schools during the years 2001–2011

Z Dadon-Golan, I BenDavid-Hadar, J Klein - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Equity in education implies that personal conditions should not interfere with the academic
potential. Moreover, equitable education lies the foundation for social-cohesiveness. The …