Do Limits Matter? Evidence on the Effects of Tax Limitations on Student Performance

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 401-417

  Downes, Thomas A ^a   Dye, Richard F ^b,c   McGuire, Therese J ^c  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAKE FOREST COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039165739     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/juec.1997.2052     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Tax and Expenditure Limits on Local Governments. 1995.
2. Card D., Krueger A. Does school quality matter? Returns to education and the characteristics of public school in the United States. Journal of Political Economy. 100:1992;1-40.
3. J. Dewey, T. A. Husted, L. W. Kenny, Are educational inputs irrelevant? A reexamination of the evidence, University of Florida, Gainesville, 1997.
4. Downes T. A. Evaluating the impact of school finance reform on the provision of public education: The California case. National Tax Journal. 45:1992;405-419.
5. T. A. Downes, Compensating for cost disparities with equalization aid: Can it be done? Should it be done?, Tufts University, Boston, 1995.
6. T. A. Downes, D. N. Figlio, School finance reforms, tax limits, and student performance: Do reforms level-up or dumb down?, Tufts University, Boston, 1997.
7. Dye R. F. Property tax extension caps in the Illinois collar counties. State Tax Notes. 10:1996;193-205.
8. Dye R. F., McGuire T. J. The effect of property tax limitation measures on local government fiscal behavior. Journal of Public Economics. 66:1997;496-487.
9. Ferguson R. F. Paying for public education: New evidence on how and why money matters. Harvard Journal on Legislation. 28:1991;465-498.
10. Ferguson R. F., Ladd H. F. How and why money matters: An analysis of Alabama schools. Holding Schools Accountable: Performance-Based Reform in Education. 1996;The Brookings Institution, Washington.
11. Figlio D. N. Did the "tax revolt" reduce school performance? Journal of Public Economics. 65:1997;245-269.
12. D. N. Figlio, Does school quality matter? More than we thought but less than we hoped, University of Oregon, 1996.
13. D. N. Figlio, A. O'Sullivan, Do local governments respond strategically to tax limits?, University of Oregon, 1997.
14. Hanushek E. A. The economics of schooling: Production and efficiency in the public schools. Journal of Economic Literature. 24:1986;1141-1177.
15. E. A. Hanushek, S. G. Rivkin, Understanding the 20th century explosion in U.S. school costs, Rochester Center for Economic Research, Rochester, NY, 1996.
16. Hedges L. V., Laine R. D., Greenwald R. Does money matter? A meta-analysis of studies of the effects of differential school inputs on student outcomes. Educational Researcher. 23:1994;5-14.
17. C. M. Hoxby, Do private schools provide competition for public schools?, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1994.
18. Klemens M. D. School funding equity without more taxes? Illinois Issues. 18:1992;25-26.
19. MaCurdy T. E., Pencavel J. H. Testing between competing models of wage and employment determination in unionized markets. Journal of Political Economy. 94:1986;S3-S39.
20. McGuire T. J., Rueben K. Tax and bond referenda in California and Illinois. Proceedings of the 89th (1996) Annual Conference on Taxation. 1997;National Tax Association, Washington. p. 169-181.