The decline in the number of school districts in the U.S.: 1950?1980

Kenny, Lawrence W.; Schmidt, Ariadne

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“…However, while economies of scale may arise in edu cation, past consolidation of districts does not appear to have been prompted by attempts to lower costs. Kenny and Schmidt (1994) argue that attempts to exploit scale economies are one of three factors that explain school district consolidation over . The other two factors are state aid growth, which lowered quality dif ferences between districts, and growing powers of teach ers' unions using consolidation to lower costs of organiz ing memberships.…”

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Spending, school structure, and public education quality. Evidence from California

Marlow

2000

Economics of Education Review

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This paper examines school structure, spending, and performance relationships in California and finds considerable support for the public exchange model that predicts that greater competition improves student performance. The evi dence indicates that, despite claims to the contrary by many advocates of public education, higher education spending does not raise student achievement. Education spending is also shown to be highest in those counties exhibiting highest monopoly power as measured by the Herfindahl index. Strong support is also shown for the public exchange view that higher market power leads to lower student achievement in the fourth and eighth grades, but little support is shown for the tenth grade.

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Spending, school structure, and public education quality. Evidence from California

Marlow

2000

Economics of Education Review

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“…For instance, Lawrence W. Kenny and Schmidt (1994) document that the number of school districts in the United States has dropped from 50,000 to 15,000 in the past decades, and a significant reason for this appears to be the exploitation of economies of scale. The second implication, that heterogeneity leads to greater demand for schools and districts, is relevant to the extent that households wish to separate themselves from households with different preferences and/or characteristics.…”

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Does School Choice Lead to Sorting? Evidence from Tiebout Variation

Urquiola

2005

American Economic Review

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“…There is some evidence that past school district consolidation has not exploited scale economies. Kenny and Schmidt (1994) found that numbers of school districts in states are s to always substantially greater than numbers that would be predicted based solely on attempt gain greater scale economies. 6.…”

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Do Crime-Related Expenditures Crowd out Higher Education Expenditures?

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Shiers

2001

Public Finance Review

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Fears about insufficient public education spending are often expressed in the area of higher education, whereby it is often argued that increases in expenditures on crime-related programs crowd out expenditures on higher education. This view suggests that higher education and crimerelated programs directly compete for government expenditures so that what one program gains the other must lose as in a zero-sum game. A competing hypothesis is that higher crime-related spending leads to higher taxes or public debt issuance or to lower spending on programs other than higher education. We estimate a three-equation model of spending on crime-related programs, spending on higher education, and the crime rate from which we directly test whether spending on crime-related programs and higher education influence each other. Our empirical analysis provides eak evidence that crime-related programs have crowded out spending on higher education. w

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The decline in the number of school districts in the U.S.: 1950?1980

Cited by 67 publications

References 12 publications

Spending, school structure, and public education quality. Evidence from California

Spending, school structure, and public education quality. Evidence from California

Does School Choice Lead to Sorting? Evidence from Tiebout Variation

Do Crime-Related Expenditures Crowd out Higher Education Expenditures?

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