Publications

Educational Performance of the Poor: Lessons from Rural Northeast Brazil
(with Ralph W. Harbison). New York: Oxford University Press, 362 pages. 1992

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

Bringing Educational Measurement into the Age of Newton
(with C. Eugene Steuerle and Robert H. Meyer). Policy Bites, The Urban Institute. October 1991

Testing Economic Knowledge
Journal of Economic Education, 22(3), Summer, pp. 273-75. 1991

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

Improving Information for Social Policy Decisions: The Uses of Microsimulation Modeling - Volume II: Technical Papers
(co-editor with Constance F. Citro)
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Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 368 pages. 1991

Improving Information for Social Policy Decisions: The Uses of Microsimulation Modeling - Volume I: Review and Recommendations
(co-editor with Constance F. Citro). Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 360 pages. 1991

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

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

Walter Y. Oi: Reflections on his Career and his Legacy
Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy 33, pp. 9-12. Autumn 1990

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

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

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

Schools in the 1990s: The Opportunities and Risks Facing Texas and Other States
in 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

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

Social Science Research and Policy: A Review Essay
Journal of Human Resources, pp. 46-51. Spring 1990

Review of "The Green Book"
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1989 Edition, 8(4), Fall, pp. 691-694. 1989

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

Overview of Federal Involvement in Education
in National Economic Commission, Staff Papers, Background Papers, and Major Testimony, pp. 329-333. March 1989

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

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

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

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

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, pp. 104-125. 1986

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

American Domestic Priorities
in John Quigley and Daniel Rubinfeld (ed.). American Domestic Priorities, (Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press), pp. 154-160. 1985

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

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

The Continuing Hope: A Rejoinder
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 1(1), pp. 53-54. Autumn 1981

Throwing Money at Schools
Education Week. November 1981

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

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

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

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

Conceptual and Empirical Issues in the Estimation of Educational Production Functions
The Journal of Human Resources, 14(3), pp. 351-388. Summer 1979

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

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

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

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

Ethnic Income Variations: Magnitudes and Explanations
American Ethnic Groups , Washington, D.C.: The Urban Institute, pp. 139-156. 1978

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 Volunteer Military and the Rest of the Iceberg
Policy Sciences, 8(3), pp. 343-361. September 1977

Statistical Methods for Social Scientists
(with John E. Jackson). New York: Academic Press, 374 pages. 1977

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), pp. 173-180. 1977

Review [of Sewell and Hauser]
Journal of Human Resources, 11(3), Summer, pp. 420-422. 1976

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), pp. 191-196. 1976

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), pp. 17-38. 1975

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, pp. 121-138. 1975