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Corcoran, Sean Patrick.

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Four decades of change in United States public education: Essays on teacher quality and school finance.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Four decades of change in United States public education: Essays on teacher quality and school finance./
Author:	Corcoran, Sean Patrick.
Description:	189 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-09, Section: A, page: 3384.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-09A.
Subject:	Economics, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3107207

Four decades of change in United States public education: Essays on teacher quality and school finance.
Corcoran, Sean Patrick.

Four decades of change in United States public education: Essays on teacher quality and school finance. - 189 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-09, Section: A, page: 3384.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Maryland, College Park, 2003.

Several decades of research in the economics of education have shown that both the quality and quantity of school resources are important for student outcomes. In this dissertation, I present two essays that address changes in both the quality and quantity of resources available to public schools over the past four decades (1960--2000).Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Economics, General.

Four decades of change in United States public education: Essays on teacher quality and school finance.
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520 $a Next, in chapter three I examine the impact of rising within school district population heterogeneity and income inequality on local per-pupil expenditure and public school participation rates. Like the nation at large, the populations of school districts in the United States have become significantly more diverse, in (among other dimensions) racial and ethnic background, schooling, and income. Using a merged panel of school district demographics and financial data for 8,700 unified school districts over the 1970 to 2000 period, I look at the effects of this rising heterogeneity on the support for local public schools. I find that rising within-district income inequality is associated with greater per-pupil expenditure, a result consistent with a median voter model in which a lower tax price to the median voter results in greater per-pupil spending. Greater fractionalization in race and educational attainment appears to reduce per-pupil expenditure and increase enrollment in private schools.
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