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EPI Policy briefs

Public School Funding, School Quality, and Adult Crime

July 14, 2022

Jason Baron, Joshua Hyman, Brittany Vasquez

Given the large costs of crime to society, there is substantial policy interest in identifying effective crime-prevention strategies. Many studies have focused on the effects of increasing the size of the police force and on the effects of tougher...

EPI Working papers

Public School Funding, School Quality, & Adult Crime

March 1, 2022

Jason Baron, Joshua Hyman, Brittany Vasquez

This paper asks whether improving the quality of public schools can be an effective long-run crime-prevention strategy in the U.S. Specifically, we examine the effect of school quality improvements early in children's lives on the likelihood that...

EPI Working papers

School Finance Reforms, Teachers' Unions, and the Allocation of School Resources

June 1, 2018

Joshua Hyman, Eric Brunner, Andrew Ju

School finance reforms caused some of the most dramatic increases in intergovernmental aid from states to local governments in U.S. history. We examine whether teacher unions affected the fraction of reforminduced state aid that passed through to...

EPI Working papers

Does Money Matter in the Long Run? Effects of School Spending on Education Attainment

November 1, 2016

Joshua Hyman

This paper measures the effect of increased primary school spending on students' college enrollment and completion. Using student-level panel administrative data, I exploit variation in the school funding formula imposed by Michigan's 1994 school...

Other reports

Charter Schools: A Report on Rethinking the Federal Role in Education

December 1, 2011

Susan Dynarski, Michelle Croft, Caroline Hoxby, Tom Loveless, Mark Schneider, Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst, John Witte

Charter schools offer choice to parents who would otherwise be constrained to having their children attend a residentially assigned traditional public school. The number of charter schools has increased steadily in the last decade, reflecting their...

school funding

Public School Funding, School Quality, and Adult Crime

Public School Funding, School Quality, & Adult Crime

School Finance Reforms, Teachers' Unions, and the Allocation of School Resources

Does Money Matter in the Long Run? Effects of School Spending on Education Attainment

Charter Schools: A Report on Rethinking the Federal Role in Education

Rucker Johnson: Why School Integration Works

Failure Factories: When Education Policies Desert Our Children panel

Now What? Education policy in Michigan 3 panel

Education policy in the next Michigan: What the think tanks think

Eric Hanushek: Will U.S. schools drag us down?