Eric A. Hanushek
Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow
School Finance
General Audience Articles
Introduction: Good Intentions Captured – School Funding Adequacy and the CourtsCourting Failure: How School Finance Lawsuits Exploit Judges’ Good Intentions and Harm Our Children, Stanford, CA: Education Next Books, 2006, pp. xiii-xxxii.
Science Violated: Spending Projections and the "Costing Out" of an Adequate EducationCourting Failure: How School Finance Lawsuits Exploit Judges' Good Intentions and Harm Our Children, Stanford, CA: Education Next Books, 2006, pp. 257-311.
Pseudo-Science and a Sound Basic Education: Voodoo Statistics in New YorkEducation Next, 5(4), Fall 2005.
Adjusting for Differences in the Costs of Educational Inputs William J. Fowler, Jr., Selected Papers in School Finance, 1997-1999, 1999, pp. 17-27.
Improving School Performance While Controlling Costs William J. Fowler, Jr., Developments in School Finance, 1995, 1996, pp. 111-122.
Notes/Comments
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.
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.
Working Papers
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.
Academic Articles
Household location and schools in metropolitan areas with heterogeneous suburbs: Tiebout, Alonso, and government policyJournal of Public Economic Theory, Forthcoming.
Financing Schools In John Hattie and Eric M. Anderman (ed.), International Guide to Student Achievement, New York: Routledge, 2013, pp. 134-136.
Urban education, location, and opportunity in the United States in Nancy Brooks, Kieran Donaghy, and Gerrit-Jan Knaap (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Urban Economics and Planning, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 583-615.
Private Schools and Residential Choices: Accessibility, Mobility, and WelfareB.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (Contributions), 11(1) article 44, 2011, pp. 1-32.
Getting Down to Facts: School Finance and Governance in CaliforniaEducation Finance and Policy, 3(1), Winter 2008, pp. 1-19.
What Do Cost Functions Tell Us About the Cost of an Adequate Education?Peabody Journal of Education, 83(2), 2008, pp. 198-223.
The Alchemy of ‘Costing Out’ an Adequate Education In Martin R. West and Paul E. Peterson (eds.), School Money Trials: The Legal Pursuit of Educational Adequacy, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2007, pp. 77-101.
Charter School Quality and Parental Decision Making with School ChoiceJournal of Public Economics, 91(5-6), June 2007, pp. 823-848.
The Complementarity of Tiebout and AlonsoJournal of Housing Economics, 16(2), August 2006, pp. 243-261.
Publicly Provided Education In Alan J. Auerbach and Martin Feldstein (Eds.), Handbook of Public Economics (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 2002), 2002, pp. 2045-2141.
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.
A Jaundiced View of "Adequacy" in School Finance ReformEducational Policy, 8(4), December 1994, pp. 460-69.
When School Finance 'Reform' May Not Be Good PolicyHarvard Journal on Legislation, 28(2), Summer 1991, pp. 423-456.
