Notes/Comments
Notes/Comments
The Education Quality ImperativeThe Politics of Growth, Stability and Reform, London: Policy Network and Global Progress, 2013, 121-124.
Allowing local schools to make more decisions may work in developed countries but is questionable in developing countriesVox, January 9, 2012.
Vocational education facilitates entry into the labour market but hurts employment at older agesVox, November 21, 2011.
Overview of the Symposium on Performance Pay for TeachersEconomics of Education Review, 30(3), June 2011, pp. 391-393.
Total Student Load: Maybe worth a longer look, but hardly a revolutionEducation Next, 10(2), Spring 2010, pp. 84-85.
The Choice Movement and the CourtsSchool Choice Advocate , Foundation for Educational Choice, February 2010.
Judicial Funding Mandates Related to Education Sharply DeclineState Courts Project, Federalist Society, Fall 2009.
The Effectiveness of Court-Ordered Funding of SchoolsEducation Outlook, No. 6 (Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute), May 2009.
John Forest Kain (1935-2003)In Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (eds.), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Getting down to facts: School finance and governance in California Institute for Research on Education Policy and Practice, Stanford University, September 2007.
Is the 'Evidence-Based Approach' a Good Guide to School Finance Policy?Paper commissioned by Washington Learns, March 2007.
Choice, Charters, and Public School CompetitionEconomic Commentary, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, March 15, 2006, March 15, 2006.
Comment [on Murnane, Willett, Bub, and McCartney]In Gary Burtless and Janet Rothenberg Pack(ed.), Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2006, pp. 128-131.
Remedial Math: Rather than Spend More on Schools, We Should Spend More WiselyThe New Democrat, 7(6) , November/December 1995, pp. 25-27.
Developing Value-Added Measures for Teachers and SchoolsIn Koret Task Force on K-12 Education, Reforming Education in Arkansas, (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press), 2005, pp. 99-104.
Rewarding TeachersIn Koret Task Force on K1-12 Education, Reforming Education in Arkansas, (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press), 2005, pp. 155-166.
Why the Federal Government Should be Involved in School AccountabilityJournal of Policy Analysis and Management , 24(1), Winter, 2005, pp. 168-172.
The Underrepresentation of Minority Faculty in Higher Education: Panel DiscussionAmerican Economic Review, 94(2), May 2004, pp. 304-306.
How to Determine Who is a Quality TeacherIn Lewis C. Solmon and Tamara W. Schiff (ed.), Talented Teachers: The Essential Force for Improving Student Achievement, Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing, 2004, pp. 49-85.
Public School Finance and Urban School Policy: General versus Partial Equilibrium AnalysisIn William G. Gale and Janet Rothenberg Pack (ed.), Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2003, pp. 171-176.
Comment [on Krueger and Heckman]In Benjamin M. Friedman (ed.), Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies?, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003, pp. 252-269.
Teacher quality and teacher salariesPolicy Brief, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University, November 2002.
Introduction to the JHR's Special Issue on Designing Incentives to Promote Human CapitalThe Journal of Human Resources, 37( 4), Autumn, 2002, pp. 693-695.
Efficiency and Equity in EducationNBER Reporter, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2001, p. 15-19.
The Truth about Teacher Salaries and Student AchievementIn Williamson M. Evers, Lance T. Izumi, and Pamela A. Riley (ed.), School Reform: The Critical Issues, (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press), 2001, pp. 174-175.
Teacher quality and school reformEducation Finance Research Consortium, The Teaching Workforce, Symposium Proceedings, Albany: Center for Policy Research, Rockefeller College, University of Albany, 2001, pp. 81-99.
Further Evidence on the Effects of Catholic Secondary Schoolingin William G. Gale and Janet Rothenberg Pack (ed.), Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2000), 2000, pp. 194-197.
Improving Student Achievement: Is Reducing Class Size the Answer?Policy Brief, Progressive Policy Institute, June 1998.
Review of Susan E. Mayer, What Money Can’t Buy: Family Income and Children’s Life ChancesJournal of Policy Analysis and Management, 17(2), Summer 1998, pp. 535-538.
Why True Reform of Schools is so Unlikely Jobs and Capital, (Milken Institute for Jobs and Capital Formation), 6, Winter, 1997, pp.23-27.
Making Schools Work: The Economics of School Reformin Robert Berne (ed.), Study on Cost-Effectiveness in Education, (New York: New York State Board of Regents), 1996.
Comment on Chapters Two, Three, and Fourin Helen Ladd (ed.), Holding Schools Accountable: Performance-Based Reform in Education, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1996, pp. 128-136.
Making Schools Work: Spending and Student AchievementHeartland Policy Study No. 68, (The Heartland Institute), September 26, 1995.
Making America's Schools Work: This Time Money is Not the AnswerBrookings Review, Fall, 1994, pp. 10-13.
Education Investment and Education ReformJobs and Capital, (Milken Institute for Jobs and Capital Formation) 3 (Fall), 1994, pp. 36-38.
Money Might Matter Somewhere: A Response to Hedges, Laine, and GreenwaldEducational Researcher, 23(4), May 1994, pp. 5-8.
Microsimulation Models for Social Welfare Programs: An EvaluationFocus, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Winter , December 1993, p. 13-21.
Comment [on Manski]in Charles T. Clotfelter and Michael Rothschild, Studies of Supply and Demand in Higher Education, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 1993, pp. 57-60.
Bringing Educational Measurement into the Age of NewtonPolicy Bites, The Urban Institute, October 1991.
Walter Y. Oi: Reflections on his Career and his LegacyCarnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy 33, Autumn 1990, pp. 9-12.
Schools in the 1990s: The Opportunities and Risks Facing Texas and Other Statesin Gerald P. O'Driscoll, Jr. and Stephen P.A. Brown (ed.), The Southwest Economy in the 1990s: A Different Decade, (Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers), , pp. 39-43.
Review of "The Green Book"Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1989 Edition, 8(4), Fall, 1989, pp. 691-694.
Overview of Federal Involvement in Educationin National Economic Commission, Staff Papers, Background Papers, and Major Testimony, March 1989, pp. 329-333.
American Domestic Prioritiesin John Quigley and Daniel Rubinfeld (ed.), American Domestic Priorities, (Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press), 1985, pp. 154-160.
The Continuing Hope: A RejoinderJournal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1(1), Autumn 1981, pp. 53-54.
Comment [on Apgar] in Gregory K. Ingram (ed.), Residential Location and Urban Housing Markets, NBER Studies in Income and Wealth, No. 45. (NY: National Bureau of Economic Research), 1977, pp. 173-180.
Comment [on Levin] in Joseph T. Froomkin, Dean T. Jamison, and Roy Radner (ed.), Education as an Industry, (New York: National Bureau of Economic Research), 1976, pp. 191-196.
Price Data and Data SystemsOffice of Economic Stabilization, Historical Working Papers on the Economic Stabilization Program, Volume II. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1974.


