The relationship between school resources and student achievement has been
controversial, in large part because it calls into question a variety of traditional policy …

Historically, most attention in public programs has been given to the resources devoted to
the activity, and resources have been used to index both commitment and quality. Education …

ABSTRACT Since Coleman (1966), many have questioned whether school spending affects
student outcomes. The school finance reforms that began in the early 1970s and …

Econometrics is the combined study of economics and statistics and is an'applied'unit. It is
increasingly becoming a core element in finance degrees at upper levels. This first local …

This paper disentangles the impact of schools and teachers in influencing achievement with
special attention given to the potential problems of omitted or mismeasured variables and of …

How does a large unconditional increase in salary affect the performance of incumbent
employees in the public sector? We present experimental evidence on this question in the …

This paper empirically investigates the various effects that source and destination countries'
financial development (SFD and DFD respectively) have on foreign direct investment (FDI) …

The evaluation of numerous school reforms requires an understanding of the value of better
schools. Given the difficulty of calculating the relationship between school quality and …

The concept of'social capital'is currently the focus of an explosion of interest in the research
and policy community. It refers to the social networks, informal structures and norms that …

Researchers, historians, and philosophers of science have debated the nature of scientific
research in education for more than 100 years. Recent enthusiasm for" evidence-based" …