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, 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.
School resources and educational outcomes in developing countries: A review of the literature from 1990 to 2010NBER Working Paper 17554, October 2011.
Books
Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses: Solving the Funding-Achievement Puzzle in America's Public SchoolsPrinceton 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 CostsWashington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1994, 200 pages.
Educational Performance of the Poor: Lessons from Rural Northeast BrazilNew York: Oxford University Press, 1992, 362 pages.
Education and Race: An Analysis of the Educational Production ProcessLexington, MA: D.C. Heath, 1972, 176 pages.
Academic Articles
Economic Growth in Developing Countries: The Role of Human CapitalEconomics of Education Review, Forthcoming.
Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISAJournal of Development Economics, Forthcoming.
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(3), 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.
