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Did Cuts in State Aid During the Great Recession Lead to Changes in Local Property Taxes?

Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Livingston, Max; Roy, Joydeep - In: Education Finance and Policy 9 (2014) 4, pp. 383-416

The Great Recession led to marked declines in state revenue. In this paper we investigate whether (and how) local school districts modified their funding and taxing decisions in response to state aid declines in the post-recession period. Our results reveal school districts responded to state...

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Accountability with Voucher Threats, Responses, and the Test-Taking Population: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Florida

Chakrabarti, Rajashri - In: Education Finance and Policy 8 (2013) 2, pp. 121-167

regime. Under Florida rules, scores of students in several special education (ESE) and limited English proficient (LEP … evidence of classification into excluded ESE. © 2013 Association for Education Finance and Policy …

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Student Debt and Default : The Role of For-Profit Colleges

Armona, Luis - 2020

For-profit providers have become an important fixture of U.S. higher education markets. Students who attend for … implications for public investments in higher education as well as how students make postsecondary choices …

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Precarious slopes? The Great Recession, federal stimulus, and New Jersey schools

Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Sutherland, Sarah - In: Economic Policy Review (2013) Dec, pp. 41-65

While only a sparse literature investigates the impact of the Great Recession on various sectors of the economy, there is virtually no research on the effect on schools. This article starts to fill the void. The authors make use of rich panel data and a trend-shift analysis to study how New...

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Do vouchers lead to sorting under random private school selection? Evidence from the Milwaukee voucher program

Chakrabarti, Rajashri - In: Economics of Education Review 34 (2013) C, pp. 191-218

This paper analyzes the impact of voucher design on student sorting in the application and enrollment phases of parental choice. Much of the existing literature investigates the question of sorting where private schools can screen students. However, the publicly funded U.S. voucher programs...

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Abbott and Bacon Districts: Education finances during the great recession

Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Sutherland, Sarah - 2012

and efficient education. The State of New Jersey also has one of the country's most rigid policies regarding a balanced … tough decisions about education spending. This paper exploits rich panel data and trend-shift analysis to analyze how school …. Given the unique role of the Abbott and Bacon Districts in the history of New Jersey education policy, the findings of this …

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Did cuts in state aid during the great recession lead to changes in local property taxes?

Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Livingston, Max; Roy, Joydeep - 2013

During the Great Recession and its aftermath, state and local governments' revenue streams dried up due to diminished taxes. Budget cuts affected many aspects of government; in this paper, we investigate whether (and how) local school districts modified their funding and taxing decisions in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333643

Incentives and responses under No Child Left Behind: Credible threats and the role of competition

Chakrabarti, Rajashri - In: Journal of Public Economics 110 (2014) C, pp. 124-146

NCLB mandated the institution of Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) objectives, and schools are assigned an AYP pass/fail based on performance in these objectives. AYP-fail status is associated with negative publicity and often sanctions. Using data from Wisconsin and alternate regression...

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Can increasing private school participation and monetary loss in a voucher program affect public school performance? Evidence from Milwaukee

Chakrabarti, Rajashri - 2007

The Milwaukee voucher program, as implemented in 1990, allowed only nonsectarian private schools to participate in the program. However, following a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling, the program was expanded to include religious private schools in 1998. This second phase of the voucher program led...

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Impact of voucher design on public school performance: Evidence from Florida and Milwaukee voucher programs

Chakrabarti, Rajashri - 2008

This paper examines the impact of vouchers in general and voucher design in particular on public school performance. It argues that all voucher programs are not created equal. There are often fundamental differences in voucher designs that affect public school incentives differently and induce...

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