Articles

“Generalizations about Using Value-Added Measures of Teacher Quality” (with Steven G. Rivkin), American Economic Review, 100(2), forthcoming May 2010.

"The High Cost of Low Educational Performance: The Long-Run Impact of Improving PISA Outcomes" (with Ludger Woessmann), Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2010.

“Education and Economic Growth” (with Ludger Woessmann) in Dominic J. Brewer and Patrick J.  McEwan, ed. Economics of Education (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2010): pp. 60-67. [reprinted in Eva Baker,  Barry McGaw and Penelope Peterson, International Encyclopedia of Education  (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2010)].
 
“Education Production Functions: Evidence from Developed Countries” in Dominic J. Brewer and Patrick J.  McEwan, ed. Economics of Education (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2010): pp. 132-136. [reprinted in Eva Baker,  Barry McGaw and Penelope Peterson, International Encyclopedia of Education  (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2010)].
 
"Teacher deselection" in Dan Goldhaber and Jane Hannaway (ed.), Creating a New Teaching Profession (Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press, 2009): pp. 165-180.

“Quality-consistent estimates of international schooling and skill gradients” (with Lei Zhang), Journal of Human Capital, 3(2), Summer 2009:  pp. 107-143.

“School Policy: Implications of Recent Research for Human Capital Investments in South Asia and Other Developing Countries,” Education Economics, 17( 3), September 2009, pp. 291-313.

"Many Schools are Still Inadequate: Now What?" (with Alfred A. Lindseth), Education Next, 9(4), Fall 2009, pp. 48-56.
 
"The Economic Value of Education and Cognitive Skills." In Gary Sykes, Barbara Schneider and David N. Plank (eds.), Handbook of education policy research (New York: Routledge, 2009): pp. 39-56.
 
 “Does Pollution Increase School Absences?” (with Janet Currie, E. Megan Kahn, Matthew Neidell, and Steve G. Rivkin ), Review of Economics and Statistics, 91(4), November 2009: pp. 682-694.  

"New evidence about Brown v. Board of Education: The complex effects of school racial composition on achievement” (with John F. Kain and Steven G. Rivkin), Journal of Labor Economics, 27(3), July 2009:  pp. 349-383.
 
“Harming the best: How schools affect the black-white achievement gap” (with Steven G. Rivkin), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 28(3), Summer 2009: pp.366-393.

"The Role of Cognitive Skills in Economic Development" (with Ludger Woessmann), Journal of Economic Literature 46(3), September 2008:pp. 607-668.

"What Do Cost Functions Tell Us About the Cost of an Adequate Education?" (with Robert M. Costrell and Susanna Loeb). Peabody Journal of Education 83(2), 2008:198-223.

"Education Production Functions." In Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (eds.), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).

“Incentives for Efficiency and Equity in the School System,” Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 9 (Special Issue), 2008: pp. 5–27

“Education and Economic Growth: It's not just going to school but learning that matters.” (with Dean T. Jamison, Eliot A. Jamison, and Ludger Woessmann), Education Next 8(2), Spring 2008,: pp. 62-70.

“Getting Down to Facts: School Finance and Governance in California” (Susanna Loeb and Anthony Bryk), Education Finance and Policy, 3(1), Winter 2008: pp. 1-19.

"Do students care about school quality? Determinants of dropout behavior in developing countries" (with Victor Lavy and Kohtaro Hitomi.), Journal of Human Capital, 1(2), Spring 2008, pp. 69-105.

“The Single Salary Schedule and Other Issues of Teacher Pay,” Peabody Journal of Education, 82(4), October 2007, pp. 574-586.

"The Effects of Education Quality on Mortality Decline and Income Growth" (with Eliot A. Jamison and Dean T. Jamison), Economics of Education Review, 26(2), December 2007, pp. 772-789.

"Some U.S. Evidence on how the Distribution of Educational Outcomes can be Changed." in Ludger Woessmann and Paul E. Peterson (ed.), Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), pp. 159-190.

"The Complementarity of Tiebout and Alonso" (with Kuzey Yilmaz) Journal of Housing Economics, 16(2), June 2007, pp. 243-261.

"The Confidence Men: Selling Adequacy, Making Million," Education Next 7(3), Summer 2007, pp. 73-78. [see also "Is the 'Evidence-Based Approach' a Good Guide to School Finance Policy,"
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Education Quality and Economic Growth (with Ludger Woessmann). Washington, DC: World Bank, 2007.

"Charter School Quality and Parental Decision Making with School Choice" (with John F. Kain, Steve G. Rivkin, and Gregory F. Branch.) Journal of Public Economics, 91(5-6), June 2007, pp. 823-848.

"Pay, Working Conditions, and Teacher Quality" (with Steven G. Rivkin), Future of Children 17(1), Spring 2007, pp. 69-86.

"Charter School Quality and Parental Decision Making with School Choice" (with John F. Kain, Steve G. Rivkin, and Gregory F. Branch.) Journal of Public Economics, 91(5-6), June 2007, pp. 823-848.


"Teacher Quality" (with Steven G. Rivkin) in Eric A. Hanushek and Finis Welch (ed.), Handbook of the Economics of Education. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 1051-1078.


"School Resources" in Eric A. Hanushek and Finis Welch (ed.), Handbook of the Economics of Education. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 865-908.


“Teacher Compensation” in Paul E. Peterson (ed.), Reforming Education in Florida (Palo Alto, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2006), pp. 149-163.

“Science Violated: Spending Projections and the ‘Costing Out” of an Adequate Education,” in Eric A. Hanushek (ed.), Courting Failure: How School Finance Lawsuits Exploit Judges’ Good Intentions and Harm Our Children. Stanford: Education Next Books, 2006, pp. 257-311.

Introduction: Good Intentions Captured – School Funding Adequacy and the Courts” in Eric A. Hanushek (ed.), Courting Failure: How School Finance Lawsuits Exploit Judges’ Good Intentions and Harm Our Children. Stanford: Education Next Books, 2006, pp. xiii-xxxii.


"Alternative School Policies and the Benefits of General Cognitive Skills," Economics of Education Review, 25(4), August 2006, pp. 447-462.

"School Accountability and Student Performance" (with Margaret E. Raymond), Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Regional Economic Development, 2(1), March 2006, pp. 51-61.

"Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across Countries " ”(with Ludger Wößmann), Economic Journal 116, March 2006, pp. C63-C76.

"Early Returns from School Accountability" (with Margaret E. Raymond) in Generational Change: Closing the Test Score Gap, edited by Paul E. Peterson (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006), pp. 143-166.

“Economic Outcomes and School Quality,” Education Policy Series, Volume 4 (Paris: International Institute for Educational Planning and International Academy of Education, 2005).


“Pseudo-Science and a Sound Basic Education: Voodoo Statistics in New York,” Education Next 5(4), Fall 2005, pp. 67-73.


“The Economics of School Quality,” German Economic Review 6(3), August 2005, pp. 269-286.


“Education and Training,” (with Michael Mertaugh) in Labor Markets and Social Policy in Central and Eastern Europe: The Accession and Beyond, edited by Nicholas Barr (Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2005), pp. 207-251.


“Why Quality Matters in Education,” Finance and Development, June 2005, pp. 15-19.


“The Economic Value of Improving Public Schools,” Proceedings of Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Research Conference, November 18-19, 2004 (Cleveland: Federal Reserved Bank of Cleveland, 2005), pp. 59-72.


“Teachers, Schools, and Academic Achievement,” (with Steven G. Rivkin and John F. Kain) Econometrica 73(2), March 2005, pp. 417-458.


“Does School Accountability Lead to Improved Student Performance?” (with Margaret E. Raymond) Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 24(2), Spring 2005, pp. 297-327.


“United States Lessons about School Accountability,” CESifo DICE Report, 2(4), Winter 2004, pp. 27-32.


"The Toughest Battleground: Schools," in The legacy of Milton and Rose Friedman's Free to Choose: Economic liberalism at the turn of the twenty first century, edited by Mark A. Wynne, Harvey Rosenblum and Robert L. Formaini. (Dallas, TX: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 2004), pp. 21-35.


“Shopping for Evidence Against School Accountability” (with Margaret E. Raymond), in William J. Fowler, Jr. (ed.), Developments in School Finance: 2003 (Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics, 2004), pp. 119-130.


“Opportunities, Race, and Urban Location: The Influence of John Kain” (with Edward L. Glaeser and John M. Quigley), Journal of Urban Economics 56(1), July 2004, pp. 70-79.


"The Effect of School Accountability Systems on the Level and Distribution of Student Achievement" (with Margaret E. Raymond), Journal of the European Economic Association 2(2-3), April-May 2004, pp. 406-415.


“What If There Are No ‘Best Practices’?” Scottish Journal of Political Economy 51(2), May 2004, pp. 156-172.


“How to Improve the Supply of High Quality Teachers” (with Steven G. Rivkin), in Diane Ravitch (ed.), Brookings Papers on Education Policy 2004 (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2004), pp. 7-25.


“Why Public Schools Lose Teachers” (with John F. Kain and Steven G. Rivkin), Journal of Human Resources 39(2), Spring 2004, pp. 326-354.


“Disruption versus Tiebout Improvement: The Costs and Benefits of Switching Schools” (with John F. Kain and Stephen G. Rivkin), Journal of Public Economics 88(9), August 2004, pp. 1721-1746.

“The Revolving Door” (with John F. Kain and Steven G. Rivkin), Education Next 4(1), Winter 2004, pp. 77-82. [reprinted in: William J. Fowler, Jr. (ed.), Developments in School Finance: 2003 (Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics, 2004), pp. 7-15]


“Redistribution through Education and Other Transfer Mechanisms” (with Charles Ka Yui Leung and Kuzey Yilmaz), Journal of Monetary Economics 50(8), November 2003, pp. 1719-1750.


"Lessons about the Design of State Accountability Systems” (with Margaret E. Raymond), in Paul E. Peterson and Martin R. West (ed.), No Child Left Behind? The Politics and Practice of Accountability (Washington, DC: Brookings, 2003), pp. 126-151.


“Does Peer Ability Affect Student Achievement?” (with John F. Kain, Jacob M. Markman, and Steven G. Rivkin), Journal of Applied Econometrics 18(5), September/October 2003, pp. 527-544.


"Improving Educational Quality: How Best to Evaluate Our Schools", (with Margaret E. Raymond), in Yolanda Kodrzycki (ed.), Education in the 21st Century: Meeting the Challenges of a Changing World (Boston, MA: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2003), pp. 193-224.


“Efficiency and Equity in Schools around the World” (with Javier A. Luque), Economics of Education Review 20(5), October 2003, pp. 481-502.


“High Stakes Research” (with Margaret E. Raymond), Education Next 3(3), Summer 2003, pp. 48-55. [see also, “Shopping for Evidence Against School Accountability,” http://educationnext.org/unabridged/20033/hanushek.pdf]


"Does Public School Competition Affect Teacher Quality?" (with Steve G. Rivkin), in Caroline Minter Hoxby (ed.), The Economics of School Choice (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003), pp. 23-47.


“Lost Opportunity,” Education Next 3(2), Spring 2003, pp. 84-87.


“The Failure of Input-based Schooling Policies,” Economic Journal 113 ,February 2003, pp. F64-F98.


“The Importance of School Quality,” in Paul E. Peterson (ed.), Our Schools and Our Future: Are We Still at Risk? (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2002), pp. 141-173.


“Inferring Program Effects for Specialized Populations: Does Special Education Raise Achievement for Students with Disabilities” (with John F. Kain and Steven G. Rivkin), Review of Economics and Statistics 84(4), November 2002, pp. 584-599.


“Publicly Provided Education,” in Alan J. Auerbach and Martin Feldstein (ed.), Handbook of Public Economics (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 2002), pp. 2045-2141.


“Teacher Quality,” in Lance T. Izumi and Williamson M. Evers (ed.), Teacher Quality (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2002), pp. 1-12. [reprinted in Lewis C. Solmon and Tamara W. Schiff (ed.), Talented Teachers: The Essential Force for Improving Student Achievement (Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing, 2004), pp. 115-123].


“The Seeds of Growth,” Education Next 2(3), Fall 2002, pp. 10-17.


"Evidence, politics, and the class size debate." In Lawrence Mishel and Richard Rothstein (ed.), The class size debate (Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute, 2002), pp. 37-65.


“Will Quality of Peers Doom Those Left in the Public Schools?” in Paul T. Hill (ed.), Choice with Equity (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2002), pp. 121-140.


“Sorting out accountability systems.” (with Margaret E. Raymond) In Williamson M. Evers and Herbert J. Walberg (ed.), School accountability (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2002), pp.75-104.


“Economics of Education,” in Paul B. Baltes and Neil J. Smelser (ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, vol. 6 (Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, 2001), pp. 4200-4208.


“Spending on Schools,” in Terry Moe (ed.), A Primer on American Education (Hoover Press, 2001), pp. 69-88.


“The Confusing World of Educational Accountability” (with Margaret E. Raymond), National Tax Journal 54(2), June 2001, pp. 365-384.


“Black-white achievement differences and governmental interventions.” American Economic Review 91(2), May 2001, pp. 24-28.


“Deconstructing RAND.” Education Matters 1(1), Spring 2001, pp. 65-70. [http://www.educationnext.org] See also “Have we learned anything new? The RAND study of NAEP performance.” Education Matters More (2001). [http://www.educationnext.org]


“Schooling, Inequality, and the Impact of Government” (with Julie A. Somers), in Finis Welch (ed.), The Causes and Consequences of Increasing Inequality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), pp. 169-199.


“Smaller Classes, Lower Salaries? The Effects of Class Size on Teacher Labor Markets” (with Javier Luque), in Sabrina W.M. Laine and James G. Ward (ed.), Using What We Know: A Review of the Research on Implementing Class-Size Reduction Initiatives for State and Local Policymakers (Oak Brook, Ill.: North Central Regional Educational Laboratory, 2000), pp. 35-51.


“Schooling, Labor Force Quality, and the Growth of Nations” (with Dennis D. Kimko), American Economic Review 90(5), December 2000, pp. 1184-1208.


“Some Findings from an Independent Investigation of the Tennessee STAR Experiment and from Other Investigations of Class Size Effects,” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 21(2), Summer 1999, pp. 143-163.


“The Evidence on Class Size,” in Susan E. Mayer and Paul Peterson (ed.), Earning and Learning: How Schools Matter (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1999), pp. 131-168.


“Budgets, Priorities, and Investment in Human Capital,” in Marvin H. Kosters (ed.), Financing College Tuition: Government Policies and Educational Priorities (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 1999), pp. 8-27.


“Adjusting for Differences in the Costs of Educational Inputs,” in William J. Fowler, Jr. (ed.), Selected Papers in School Finance, 1997-1999 (Washington, DC: National Center for Educational Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, 1999), pp. 17-27.


“Conclusions and Controversies about the Effectiveness of School Resources,” FRBNY Economic Policy Review, 4(1), March 1998, pp. 11-28.


“Outcomes, Incentives, and Beliefs: Reflections on Analysis of the Economics of Schools,” Educational Evaluation an Policy Analysis 19(4), Winter 1997, pp. 301-308.

“The Productivity Collapse in Schools,” in William J. Fowler, Jr. (ed.), Developments in School Finance, 1996 (Washington, DC: National Center for Educational Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, 1997), pp. 183-195.


“Incentives Are Key to Improved Schools,” Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, 12(3), Fall 1997, pp. 62-67.


"Assessing the Effects of School Resources on Student Performance: An Update", Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 19(2), Summer 1997, pp. 141-164.


“Health and Schooling: Evidence and Policy Implications for Developing Countries” (with João Batista Gomes-Neto, Raimundo Hélio Leite, and Roberto Cláudio Frota-Bezzera), Economics of Education Review, 16(3), June 1997, pp. 271-282.


“Analytical Framework for Retirement Policy Decisions,” (with Constance F. Citro) in Michael S. Gordon, Olivia S. Mitchell, and Marc M. Twinney (ed.), Positioning Pensions for the Twenty-first Century (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997), pp. 209-219.


“Applying Performance Incentives to Schools for Disadvantaged Populations,” Education and Urban Society, 29(3), May 1997, pp. 296-316.


“Understanding the 20th Century Growth in U.S. School Spending” (with Steven G. Rivkin), Journal of Human Resources, 32(1), Winter 1997, pp. 35-68.


“Measuring Investment in Education,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 10(4), Fall 1996, pp. 9-30.


“A More Complete Picture of School Resource Policies,” Review of Educational Research, 66(3), Fall 1996, pp. 397-409.


“Efficiency-Enhancing Investments in School Quality” (with João Batista Gomes Neto and Ralph W. Harbison), in Nancy Birdsall and Richard H. Sabot (ed.), Opportunity Foregone: Education in Brazil (Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank, 1996), pp. 385-424.


“Improving School Performance While Controlling Costs,” in William J. Fowler, Jr. (ed.), Developments in School Finance, 1995 (Washington, DC: National Center for Educational Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, 1996), pp. 111-122.


“Aggregation and the Estimated Effects of School Resources” (with Steven G. Rivkin and Lori L. Taylor), Review of Economics and Statistics, 78(4), November 1996, pp. 611-627.


“School Resources and Student Performance,” in Gary Burtless (ed.), Does Money Matter? The Effect of School Resources on Student Achievement and Adult Success (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1996), pp. 43-73.


“The Identification of School Resource Effects” (with Steven G. Rivkin and Lori L. Taylor), Education Economics, 4(2), August 1996, pp. 105-125.


"Rationalizing School Spending: Efficiency, Equity, and Externalities, and Their Connection to Rising Expenditure," in Victor Fuchs (ed.), Individual and Social Responsibility: Child Care, Education, Medical Care, and Long-Term Care in America (University of Chicago Press/NBER, 1996), pp. 59-91.


“Outcomes, Costs, and Incentives in Schools,” in Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, National Research Council, Improving the Performance of America’s Schools. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1995, pp. 28-51. [reprinted in Eric A. Hanushek and Dale W. Jorgenson (ed.), Improving America’s Schools: The Role of Incentives, Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1996].

“The Economics of Structured Judgments Under CPLR Article 50-B” (with Michael J. Wolkoff), Buffalo Law Review, 43(2), Fall 1995, pp. 563-582.

“The Quest for Equalized Mediocrity: School Finance Reform without Consideration of School Performance,” in Lawrence O. Picus and James L. Wattenbarger (ed.), Where Does the Money Go? Resource Allocation in Elementary and Secondary Schools (Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 1995), pp. 20-43.

“Interpreting Recent Research on Schooling in Developing Countries,” World Bank Research Observer, 10(2), August 1995, pp. 227-246


"Who Chooses to Teach (and Why)?" (with Richard R. Pace), Economics of Education Review, 14(2), June 1995, pp. 101-117.


"The (Dis)Incentive to Settle Personal Injury Cases" (with Michael J. Wolkoff), New York State Bar Journal, 67(3), (March/April 1995), pp. 52-56


"A Jaundiced View of 'Adequacy' in School Finance Reform," Educational Policy, 8(4), December 1994, pp. 460-469.


"Understanding Entry into the Teaching Profession" (with Richard R. Pace), in Ronald G. Ehrenberg (ed.), Choices and Consequences: Contemporary Policy Issues in Education (Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 1994). pp. 12-28.

"The Causes and Consequences of Grade Repetition: Evidence from Brazil," (with João Batista Gomes-Neto), Economic Development and Cultural Change, 43(1), October 1994, pp. 117-148. [reprinted in Nancy Birdsall and Richard H. Sabot (ed.), Opportunity Foregone: Education in Brazil (Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank, 1996), pp. 425-460.]

"Estimating the Effects of Proposed Legislation: The Case for Model Validation" (with Constance F. Citro), Chance, 7(2), Spring 1994, pp. 31-40.


"Education Production Functions," in Torsten Husén and T. Neville Postlethwaite (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd Edition, Volume 3 (Oxford: Pergamon, 1994), pp. 1756-1762. [reprinted in Martin Carnoy (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Economics of Education, 2nd Edition (Oxford: Pergamon, 1995), pp. 277-282].


"Concepts of Educational Efficiency and Effectiveness" (with Marlaine E. Lockheed), in Torsten Husén and T. Neville Postlethwaite (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd Edition, Volume 3 (Oxford: Pergamon, 1994), pp. 1779-1784.


"Can Equity Be Separated from Efficiency in School Finance Debates?", in Emily P. Hoffman (ed.), Essays on the Economics of Education (Kalamazoo, MI: Upjohn Institute, 1993), pp. 35-73.


"Investimentos Autofinanciáveis em Educação," (with João Batista Gomes-Neto, Raimundo H. Leite, and Ralph W. Harbison), Cadernos de Pesquisa, 85, May 1993, pp. 11-25.


"Improving Educational Outcomes While Controlling Costs," (with Steven G. Rivkin and Dean T. Jamison), Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 37 (December 1992), pp. 205-238.


"The Trade-off Between Child Quantity and Quality," Journal of Political Economy, 100(1), February 1992, pp. 84-117.


"School Performance and Educational Policy Making," in Gary Libecap (ed.), The Education and Quality of the American Labor Force (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1991), pp. 65-94.


"Concepts of Educational Efficiency and Effectiveness" (with Marlaine E. Lockheed) in Torsten Husén and T. Neville Postlethwaite (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Education, Supplementary vol. 2. Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1991.


"When School Finance 'Reform' May Not Be Good Policy," Harvard Journal on Legislation, 28(2), Summer 1991, pp. 423-456.


"Reforming Educational Reform," (with John E. Chubb) in Henry Aaron (ed.), Setting National Priorities (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1990), pp.213-247.


"Commercial Land Use Regulation and Local Government Finance," (with John M. Quigley) American Economic Review, 19(2), May 1990, pp. 176-180.


"The Policy Research Markets," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 9(2), Spring 1990, pp. 147-154.


"Social Science Research and Policy: A Review Essay," Journal of Human Resources, 25(2), Spring 1990, pp. 290-296.

"Alternative Assessments of the Performance of Schools: Measurement of State Variations in Achievement" (with Lori Taylor), Journal of Human Resources, 25(2), Spring 1990, pp. 179-201.


"Expenditures, Efficiency, and Equity in Education: The Federal Government's Role," American Economic Review, 79(2), May 1989, pp. 46-51.


"The Impact of Differential Expenditures on School Performance," Educational Researcher, 18(4), May 1989, pp. 45-51.

"Improving Educational Efficiency in Developing Countries: What Do We Know?" (with Marlaine E. Lockheed), Compare, 18(1), 1988, pp. 21-37.

"Non-Labor-Supply Responses to the Income Maintenance Experiments", in Alicia H. Munnell (ed.), Lessons from the Income Maintenance Experiments (Boston: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 1987), pp. 106-121.

"Formula Budgeting: The Economics and Analytics of Fiscal Policy under Rules," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 6(1), Fall 1986, pp. 3-19.


"Alternative Poverty Measures and the Allocation of Federal Benefits" (with Roberton Williams), in U.S. Bureau of the Census, Conference on the Measurement of Noncash Benefits: Proceedings, Volume I (Washington, DC: U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1986), pp. 104-125.

"The Economics of Schooling: Production and Efficiency in Public Schools," Journal of Economic Literature, 49(3), September 1986, pp. 1141-1177.


"Life Cycle Earning Capacity and the OJT Investment Model" (with John M. Quigley), International Economic Review, 26(2), June 1985, pp. 365-385.


"Production Functions in Education" in T. Husén and T. N. Postlethwaite (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Education (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1985), pp. 4059-4070. [reprinted in G. Psacharopoulus (ed.), Economics of Education: Research and Studies (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1987), pp. 33-42].


"Sources of Black-White Earnings Differences," Social Science Research, 11(2), June 1982, pp. 103-126.


"The Determinants of Housing Demand" (with John M. Quigley) in J.V. Henderson (ed.), Research in Urban Economics, Vol. II. (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1982), pp. 221-242.


"Throwing Money at Schools," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1(1), Fall 1981, pp. 19-41. [see also, "The Continuing Hope: A Rejoinder," same volume, pp. 53-54].


"Educational Policy Research--An Industry Perspective," Economics of Education Review, 1(2), Spring 1981, pp. 193-224.


"Consumption Aspects" (with John M. Quigley) in Katherine L. Bradbury and Anthony Downs (ed.), Do Housing Allowances Work? (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1981), pp. 185-240.


"Alternative Models of Earnings Determination and Labor Market Structure," Journal of Human Resources, 16(2), Spring 1981, pp. 238-259.


"What is the Price Elasticity of Housing Demand?" (with John M. Quigley) Review of Economics and Statistics, 62(3), August 1980, pp. 449-454.


"Conceptual and Empirical Issues in the Estimation of Educational Production Functions," Journal of Human Resources, 14(3), Summer 1979, pp. 351-388. [reprinted in Rendigs Fels and John J. Siegfried, ed., Research on Teaching College Economics. New York: Joint Council on Economic Education, 1982].


"The Dynamics of the Housing Market: A Stock Adjustment Model of Housing Consumption" (with John M. Quigley), Journal of Urban Economics, 6(1), January 1979, pp. 90-111.


"An Explicit Model of Intra-Metropolitan Mobility," (with John M. Quigley) Land Economics, 54(4), November 1978, pp. 411-429.


"Housing Market Disequilibrium and Residential Mobility," (with John M. Quigley) in Eric A. Moore and William A.V. Clark (ed.), Population Mobility and Residential Change (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1978).


"The Dynamics of Postwar Industrial Location" (with Byung Nak Song), Review of Economics and Statistics, 60(4), November 1978, pp. 515-522.


"Implicit Investment Profiles and Intertemporal Adjustments of Relative Wages" (with John M. Quigley), American Economic Review, 68(1), March 1978, pp. 67-79.


"Ethnic Income Variations: Magnitudes and Explanations" in Thomas Sowell (ed.), American Ethnic Groups (Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute, 1978), pp. 139-156.


"The Volunteer Military and the Rest of the Iceberg," Policy Sciences, 8(3), September 1977, pp. 343-361. [reprinted in R. Auster and B. Sears (ed.), American Re-evolution Papers and Proceedings (Tucson: University of Arizona, 1977)].


"Learning by Observing the Performance of Schools" in Robert A. Wallhaus (ed.), New Directions for Institutional Research: Measuring and Increasing Academic Productivity, No. 8 (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1975), pp. 17-38.


"The Demand for Local Public Service: An Exploratory Analysis" in John E. Jackson (ed.), Public Needs and Private Behavior in Metropolitan Areas
(Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1975), pp. 121-138.


"Efficient Estimators for Regressing Regression Coefficients," The American Statistician, 28(2), May 1974, pp. 66-67.


"Model Specification, Use of Aggregate Data, and the Ecological Correlation Fallacy" (with John E. Jackson and John F. Kain), Political Methodology, Winter 1974, pp. 89-107.


"The High Cost of Graduate Education in the Military," Public Policy, 21(4), Fall 1973, pp. 525-552.


"Regional Differences in the Structure of Earnings," Review of Economics and Statistics, 55(2), May 1973, pp. 204-213.


"On the Value of 'Equality of Educational Opportunity' as a Guide to Public Policy" (with John F. Kain) in Frederick Mosteller and Daniel P. Moynihan (ed.), On Equality of Educational Opportunity (New York: Random House, 1972), pp. 116-145.


"Teacher Characteristics and Gains in Student Achievement: Estimation Using Micro-Data," American Economic Review, 61(2), May 1971, pp. 280-288.


"The Value of Teachers in Teaching," RM-6362-CC/RC (Santa Monica: The Rand Corporation, 1970).


"The Production of Education, Teacher Quality, and Efficiency" in U.S. Office of Education, Do Teachers Make a Difference? (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1970), pp. 79-99.

"Voting Behavior in the 1960 Colorado Presidential Election" (with John C. Ries, John E. Coblentz, and John F. Kain), Rocky Mountain Social Science Journal, 3(1), April 1966, pp. 82-95.