Eric A. Hanushek
Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow
Resources/Efficiency
General Audience Articles
Teacher Deselection In Dan Goldhaber and Jane Hannaway (Eds.), Creating a New Teaching Profession (Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press, 2009), 2009, pp. 165-180.
The Single Salary Schedule and Other Issues of Teacher PayPeabody Journal of Education, 82(4), October 2007, pp. 574-586.
Pseudo-Science and a Sound Basic Education: Voodoo Statistics in New YorkEducation Next, 5(4), Fall 2005.
Will Quality of Peers Doom Those Left in the Public Schools? Paul T. Hill, Choice with Equity, 2002, pp. 121-140.
Adjusting for Differences in the Costs of Educational Inputs William J. Fowler, Jr., Selected Papers in School Finance, 1997-1999, 1999, pp. 17-27.
Conclusions and Controversies about the Effectiveness of School ResourcesFRBNY Economic Policy Review, 4(1), March 1998, pp. 11-28.
Improving School Performance While Controlling Costs William J. Fowler, Jr., Developments in School Finance, 1995, 1996, pp. 111-122.
Notes/Comments
Allowing local schools to make more decisions may work in developed countries but is questionable in developing countriesVox, January 9, 2012.
Total Student Load: Maybe worth a longer look, but hardly a revolutionEducation Next, 10(2), Spring 2010, pp. 84-85.
Working Papers
Estimating the Effect of Leaders on Public Sector Productivity: The Case of School PrincipalsNBER Working Paper 17803, January 2012.
Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISANBER Working Paper 17591, November 2011.
School resources and educational outcomes in developing countries: A review of the literature from 1990 to 2010NBER Working Paper 17554, October 2011.
Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth PuzzleNBER Working Paper 15066, June 2009.
Books
Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses: Solving the Funding-Achievement Puzzle in America's Public Schools. Eric A. Hanushek, Alfred A. Lindseth. Princeton University Press, 2009, 432 pages.
Courting Failure: How School Finance Lawsuits Exploit Judges' Good Intentions and Harm our Children. Eric A. Hanushek. Stanford: Education Next Books, 2006, 366 pages.
Improving America's Schools: The Role of Incentives. Eric A. Hanushek, Dale W. Jorgenson. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1996, 280 pages.
Making Schools Work: Improving Performance and Controlling Costs. Eric A. Hanushek. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1994, 200 pages.
Educational Performance of the Poor: Lessons from Rural Northeast Brazil. Eric A. Hanushek, Ralph W. Harbison. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, 362 pages.
Education and Race: An Analysis of the Educational Production Process. Eric A. Hanushek. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1972, 176 pages.
Academic Articles
Private Schools and Residential Choices: Accessibility, Mobility, and WelfareB.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (Contributions), 11(1) article 44, 2011, pp. 1-32.
How Much Do Educational Outcomes Matter in OECD Countries?Economic Policy, 26(67), July 2011, pp. 427-491.
The Economic Value of Higher Teacher QualityEconomics of Education Review, 30(2), June 2011, pp. 466-479.
The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement In Eric A. Hanushek, Stephen Machin and Ludger Woessmann (Eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol. 3, Amsterdam: North Holland, 2011, pp. 89-200.
Education Production Functions: Developed Countries Evidence In Dominic J. Brewer and Patrick J. McEwan (Ed.), Economics of Education (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2010), 2010, pp. 132-136.
Does Pollution Increase School Absences?Review of Economics and Statistics, 91(4), November 2009, pp. 683-694.
School Policy: Implications of Recent Research for Human Capital Investments in South Asia and Other Developing CountriesEducation Economics, 17(3), September 2009, pp. 291-313.
New Evidence about Brown v. Board of Education: The Complex Effects of School Racial Composition on AchievementJournal of Labor Economics, 27(3), July 2009, pp. 349-383.
Getting Down to Facts: School Finance and Governance in CaliforniaEducation Finance and Policy, 3(1), Winter 2008, pp. 1-19.
The Role of Cognitive Skills in Economic DevelopmentJournal of Economic Literature 2008, 46(3), 2008, pp. 607-668.
Do Students Care about School Quality? Determinants of Dropout Behavior in Developing CountriesJournal of Human Capital, 2(1), 2008, pp. 69-105.
Education Production Functions In Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume (eds.), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
What Do Cost Functions Tell Us About the Cost of an Adequate Education?Peabody Journal of Education, 83(2), 2008, pp. 198-223.
Incentives for Efficiency and Equity in the School SystemPerspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 9 (Special Issue), 2008, pp. 5-27.
Charter School Quality and Parental Decision Making with School ChoiceJournal of Public Economics, 91(5-6), June 2007, pp. 823-848.
School Resources In Eric A. Hanushek and Finis Welch (Eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Education, Volume 2, Amsterdam: North Holland, 2006, pp. 865-908.
The Complementarity of Tiebout and AlonsoJournal of Housing Economics, 16(2), August 2006, pp. 243-261.
Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across CountriesThe Economic Journal, 116(150), March 2006, pp. C63-C76.
Disruption versus Tiebout Improvement: The Costs and Benefits of Switching SchoolsJournal of Public Economics, 88(9), August 2004, pp. 1722-1746.
The Toughest Battleground: Schools In Mark A. Wynne, Harvey Rosenblum and Robert L. Formaini (ed.), The legacy of Milton and Rose Friedman's Free to Choose: Economic liberalism at the turn of the twenty first century, Dallas, TX: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 2004, pp. 21-35.
What If There Are No 'Best Practices'?Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 51(2), May 2004, pp. 156-172.
Does Peer Ability Affect Student Achievement?Journal of Applied Econometrics, 18(5), October 2003, pp. 527-544.
Efficiency and Equity in Schools around the WorldEconomics of Education Review, 22(5), October 2003, pp. 481-502.
Inferring Program Effects for Specialized Populations: Does Special Education Raise Achievement for Students with DisabilitiesReview of Economics and Statistics, 84(4), November 2002, pp. 584-599.
Publicly Provided Education In Alan J. Auerbach and Martin Feldstein (Eds.), Handbook of Public Economics (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 2002), 2002, pp. 2045-2141.
Schooling, Inequality, and the Impact of Government In Finis Welch (ed.), The Causes and Consequences of Increasing Inequality, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001, pp. 169-199.
Spending on Schools In Terry Moe (ed.), A Primer on American Education, Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2001, pp. 69-88.
Some Findings from an Independent Investigation of the Tennessee STAR Experiment and from Other Investigations of Class Size EffectsEducational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 21(2), Summer 1999, pp. 143-163.
Understanding the 20th Century Growth in U.S. School SpendingJournal of Human Resources, 31(1), Winter 1997, pp. 34-68.
Health and Schooling: Evidence and Policy Implications for Developing CountriesEconomics of Education Review, 16(3), June 1997, pp. 271-282.
Assessing the Effects of School Resources on Student Performance: An UpdateEducational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 19(2), Summer 1997, pp. 141-164.
Applying Performance Incentives to Schools for Disadvantaged PopulationsEducation and Urban Society, 29(3), May 1997, pp. 296-316.
Aggregation and the Estimated Effects of School ResourcesReview of Economics and Statistics, 78(4), December 1996, pp. 611-627.
A More Complete Picture of School Resource PoliciesReview of Educational Research, 66(3), Fall 1996, pp. 397-409.
Interpreting Recent Research on Schooling in Developing CountriesWorld Bank Research Observer, 10(2), August 1995, pp. 227-246.
A Jaundiced View of "Adequacy" in School Finance ReformEducational Policy, 8(4), December 1994, pp. 460-69.
The Causes and Consequences of Grade Repetition: Evidence from BrazilEconomic Development and Cultural Change, 43(1), October 1994, pp. 117-148.
Money Might Matter Somewhere: A Response to Hedges, Laine, and GreenwaldEducational Researcher, 23(4), May 1994, pp. 5-8.
Improving Educational Outcomes While Controlling CostsCarnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy 37, December 1992, pp. 205-238.
The Impact of Differential Expenditures on School PerformanceEducational Researcher, 18(4), May 1989, pp. 45-51.
Expenditures, Efficiency, and Equity in Education: The Federal Government's RoleAmerican Economic Review, 79(2), May 1989, pp. 46-51.
The Economics of Schooling: Production and Efficiency in Public SchoolsJournal of Economic Literature, 49(3), September 1986, pp. 1141-1177.
Education Policy Research-An Industry PerspectiveEconomics of Education Review, 1(2), 1981, pp. 193-224.
Conceptual and Empirical Issues in the Estimation of Educational Production FunctionsThe Journal of Human Resources, 14(3), Summer 1979, pp. 351-388.
On the Value of 'Equality of Educational Opportunity' as a Guide to Public Policy 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-DataAmerican Economic Review, 61(2), May 1971, pp. 280-288.
