The effect of school district structure on education spending

Burnell, Barbara S.

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“…Most of the empirical studies of the demand for education have used expenditures per pupil as the dependent variable. For examples of this literature, see Feldstein (1975), Ladd (1975), Chang (1981), Denzau and Grier (1984), Burnell (1991), and Stevens and Mason (1996). 9.…”

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Location Effects and the Determination of Beginning Teacher Salaries: Evidence from Ohio

Wagner

Porter

2000

Education Economics

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This paper provides a new treatment of district location in modeling the determinants of teacher salaries by incorporating the methodology of spatial econometrics. Using a location weighting variable, we examine how starting teacher salaries in one district are influenced by other districts' starting salaries in the region. We find that a $1 increase in average beginning teacher salaries of a district's neighbors generates an own salary increase in average teacher salaries ranging from $0.51 to $0.96. In order to completely account for the spillover effects present, the specification of the location variable must incorporate both the size and distance of neighboring districts.

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“…See Bergstrom and Goodman (1973) for a discussion of the application of the median voter model to the determination of the level of demand for a public good. See Chang (1981), Baum (1986), and Burnell (1991) for examples of derivations of the demand for education based on the median voter model. 8.…”

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Location Effects and the Determination of Beginning Teacher Salaries: Evidence from Ohio

Wagner

Porter

2000

Education Economics

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“…Uma análise de metarregressão com base em estudos que estimam função custo é feita por Colegrave & Giles (2008). Como estudos correlacionados destacamos: Burnell (1991) que estudou o impacto da fragmentação dos distritos escolares sobre o gastos, Afonso & St Aubyn (2006) que analisaram a eficiência na provisão de educação secundária em 25 países e Thompson (2011) que estimou funções custo para avaliar o efeito da privatização do serviço de transporte escolar.…”

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Education spending: more resources without management?

2017

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ResumoNeste trabalho, modela-se uma função custo para o ensino fundamental brasileiro. Metodologicamente, destaca-se a utilização da Forma Flexí-vel de Fourier para transpor os vieses normalmente apresentados na utilização das formas flexíveis locais. Os resultados indicam que, tudo mais constante, mesmo gastos da ordem de 10% do PIB não seriam suficientes para alcançar a proficiência mínima para 100% dos alunos. Observou-se que municípios com mais renda, menos urbanos, com menos desigualdade de renda e com maiores taxas de analfabetismo apresentam maiores exigências de gastos e maiores níveis de ineficiência. Quanto às variáveis que estão sob a gestão educacional do município, destaca-se a importân-cia do número de alunos por turma e da carga horária diária. Por fim, obteve-se ineficiência média de 14,7%.Keywords: Teoria da Firma, Educação, Forma Flexível de Fourier, Eficiên-cia. AbstractThis paper models a cost function for the Brazilian public elementary school system. Methodologically, we use a Flexible Fourier Form to overcome the biases usually presented in the use of local flexible forms. The results indicate that, ceteris paribus, even spending 10% of the GDP with education would not be sufficient to meet the minimum proficiency for 100% of students. We observe that municipalities with higher income, less urban, better income distribution and higher illiteracy rates have higher spending requirements and higher levels of inefficiency. Among the variables that can be managed by the municipality administration are the number of students per class and the school hours per day. Finally, we obtained an average inefficiency rate of about 14.7%.

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“…Burnell (1991) tests the hypothesis that greater centralization leads to higher expen ditures per pupil on a data set of 280 counties from the 1977 Census of Governments. Her model holds constant the following factors: size of county, teacher salary, pupilÐ teacher ratio, property tax base, state education grants, median income, and percentage of students in local popula tions.…”

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“…Kenny and Schmidt (1994) report some evidence that fewer school districts exert signi® cant and positive in¯ uen ces on expenditures per pupil. It should be noted, however, that intergovernmenta l competition is measured di� erently than in Burnell (1991): a dummy variable takes a value of 1 when the number of school districts per student in a state is less than the value at the twenty-® fth percentile, and 0 otherwise. Another reason why this study may not sup port Burnell's is that it uses the state as the unit of observa tion, rather than counties.…”

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Public education supply and student performance

Marlow¹

1997

Applied Economics

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This paper develops a model of public exchange whereby voters and education policy makers exchange with one another within school districts. Because school district consolidation lowers alternatives to voters-parents , consolidation is hypothesized to raise public education spending because weakened intergovernmenta l competition allows policy makers to promote their own utility, rather than that of constituents. Models of public education spending and academic performance are estimated over 1988Ð 1990. While evidence indicates little support for the traditional treatment of the Leviathan hypothesis that greater competition lowers public spending, this paper argues that education spending by itself does not fully provide a valid test of the Leviathan hypothesis since spending, by itself, does not necessarily indicate the quality of public education programmes. Empirical evidence indicates that greater numbers of schools and school districts promote higher student achievement as evidenced by higher math and verbal SAT scores, math pro® ciency of 8th graders, and lower high school drop-out rates. Evidence therefore suggests that, while greater numbers of school districts and schools are, to some degree, associated with higher public education spending, higher student achievement appears to follow as well. I . I N T R O D U C T I O NUnited States. The ® rst arises because public schools pro vide 90% of primary and secondary education and therefore There is growing perception that the educational system of crowd-out private schools that otherwise might inject the United States is in decline and, because the public sector greater competition into the education market. Parents is the dominant supplier of education, criticism naturally must pay twice for education when they send children to focuses on the public school system. While it is often argued private schools since payments for public schools are not that spending has declined, public education spending voluntary. School choice policies are aimed at curtailing the (1989Ð 90 dollars) per pupil rose 74% from 1960 to 1992, or public education monopoly because they provide public from roughly $2979 to $5196.1 Despite this spending infunds for parents who choose private schools for their crease, combined SAT (Student Achievement Test) scores children.3 Until widespread support for such policies arises, fell 5.2%, or from 948 to 899 over this same period. 2 the public education sector will likely remain insulated from Two structural characteristics describe the delivery of private competition. The second characteristic follows from primary and secondary levels of public education in the dramatic reduction in numbers of public school districts: Friedman (1962) was an early supporter of such policies. Couch, Shughart and Williams (1993) conclude that school vouchers would create a more competitive environment between private and public schools and therefore improve public school quality because higher competition for students is shown to foster higher educational qual...

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The effect of school district structure on education spending

Cited by 13 publications

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Location Effects and the Determination of Beginning Teacher Salaries: Evidence from Ohio

Location Effects and the Determination of Beginning Teacher Salaries: Evidence from Ohio

Education spending: more resources without management?

Public education supply and student performance

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