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Public education expenditures, taxation, and growth: Linking data to theory.

Allocating government education expenditures across K-12 and college education.

How different is the cyclical behavior of home production across countries?

Labor market trends with balanced growth.

A simple economic theory of skill accumulation and schooling decisions.

Public schooling, college subsidies and growth.

Public education expenditures and growth.

School finance litigation, tax and expenditure limitations, and education spending: an empirical analysis.

The interrelatedness of tax and expenditure limitations and education finance reform.

The welfare implications of factor taxation with rising wage inequality.

Can real world interest rates explain business cycles in small open economies?

A welfare analysis of policy responses to the skilled wage premium.

 

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School finance litigation, tax and expenditure limitations, and education spending: an empirical analysis.

With Mark Skidmore, Contemporary Economic Policy. January 2003, Vol 22, pp 127-143.

Abstract: Since the early 1970s, litigation in many U.S. states has led to education finance reform. Over the same period, many states have imposed new tax and expenditure limitations (TELs) on local governments. The imposition of a TEL may alter how local and state education expenditures change subsequent to court-mandated decreases in spending inequality. Similarly, the effectiveness of TELs in limiting local education expenditures may be influenced by reform. To better evaluate the effects of reform and TELs on education spending, this article considers them jointly and finds that reform has a negative effect on local own-source education expenditures only in the presence of TELs. In the absence of court-ordered reform, TELs decrease own-source expenditure, but the effect is less pronounced than when TELs are present with reform. When both are present, state government spending on education is higher. Also TELs and court-ordered reform independently increase state government spending on education.