Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow

Methodology

General Audience Articles

Science Violated: Spending Projections and the "Costing Out" of an Adequate Education. in Eric A. Hanushek (ed.) . Courting Failure: How School Finance Lawsuits Exploit Judges' Good Intentions and Harm Our Children, Stanford, CA: Education Next Books, 2006, pp. 257-311.

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Outcomes, Incentives, and Beliefs: Reflections on Analysis of the Economics of Schools. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 19(4), Winter 1997, pp. 301-308.

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

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Notes/Comments

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

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Working Papers

Contexts of Convenience: Generalizing from Published Evaluations of School Finance Policies. (with Danielle V. Handel). NBER Working Paper No. 31653, National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2023.

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Can Patience Account for Subnational Differences in Student Achievement? Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests. (with Lavinia Kinne, Pietro Sancassani, and Ludger Woessmann). NBER Working Paper No. 31690, National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2023.

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Does Regulating Entry Requirements Lead to More Effective Principals?. (with Wes Austin, Bengie Chen, Dan Goldhaber, Kris Holden, Cory Koedel, Helen Ladd, Jin Luo, Eric Parsons, Gregory Phelan, Steven G. Rivkin, Tim Sass, Mavzuna Tureava). .

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U.S. School Finance: Resources and Outcomes. (with Danielle V. Handel). NBER Working Paper No. 30769, National Bureau of Economic Research, December 2022.

Global Universal Basic Skills: Current Deficits and Implications for World Development. (with Sarah Gust and Ludger Woessmann). NBER Working Paper No. 30566, National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2022.

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The Economic Impacts of Learning Losses. (with Ludger Woessmann). OECD Education Working Paper No. 225, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, September 2020.

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Culture and Student Achievement: The Intertwined Roles of Patience and Risk-Taking. (with Lavinia Kinne, Philipp Lergetporer, and Ludger Woessmann). NBER Working Paper No. 27484, National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2020.

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Addressing Cross-National Generalizability in Educational Impact Evaluation. NBER Working Paper No. 25460, National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2019.

Books

Modern Political Economy: Old Topics, New Directions. (co-editor with Jeffrey S. Banks). New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995, 283 pages.

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

Academic Articles

Patience, Risk-Taking, and Human Capital Investment across Countries. (with Lavinia Kinne, Philipp Lergetporer, and Ludger Woessmann). Economic Journal, 132 (646), 2022, pp. 2290-2307.

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Addressing Cross-national Generalizability in Educational Impact Evaluation. International Journal of Educational Development, 80, 2021.

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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation . (with Ludger Woessmann). Journal of Economic Growth, 17(4), December 2012, pp. 267-321.

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A flawed analysis of unrepresentative state achievement data. Educational Policy, 26(3), May 2012, pp. 360-368.

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Sample Selectivity and the Validity of International Student Achievement Tests in Economic Research. (with Ludger Woessmann) . Economics Letters, 110(2), February 2011, pp. 79-82.

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