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Open Textbook Report, Rhode Island College (March 2021), Dragan Gill
Open Textbook Report, Rhode Island College (March 2021), Dragan Gill
Open Textbook Initiative
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Open Educational Resources Reimagining Access & Pedagogy, Dragan Gill, Lindsey Gumb
Open Educational Resources Reimagining Access & Pedagogy, Dragan Gill, Lindsey Gumb
Open Textbook Initiative
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The Impact Of Education Expenditures On Income Inequality: Evidence From Us States, Bryanna Seefeldt
The Impact Of Education Expenditures On Income Inequality: Evidence From Us States, Bryanna Seefeldt
Honors Projects in Economics
While the effect of various types of government expenditures on income inequality has been studied extensively, whether education expenditures impacts income inequality is less clear. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between education expenditures and income inequality. Specifically, I explore the impact of tertiary versus primary and secondary education spending on income inequality using panel data for 50 US states over the period 1987-2015. Using an ordinary least squares model with time and state fixed effects, I find that total and disaggregated education expenditures have a significant inequality-reducing effect on the income distribution. The findings support …
Beyond Savings: Empowering Faculty To Make The Switch, Dragan Gill, Lindsey Gumb
Beyond Savings: Empowering Faculty To Make The Switch, Dragan Gill, Lindsey Gumb
Open Textbook Initiative
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Do School District Bond Guarantee Programs Matter?, Michael Cirrotti
Do School District Bond Guarantee Programs Matter?, Michael Cirrotti
Economics Student Scholarship
The State of Washington enacted a school district bond credit enhancement program in 1999. Oregon did the same in 1998. I use data from the National Center for Education Statistics for a representative sample of states in order to examine whether or not these programs increased the likelihood that school districts in Washington and Oregon issued bonds. I isolate the programs’ impact in Washington and Oregon through difference-in-differences analysis to control for other variation in the data in ten other representative states during the same time period. The results suggest that state-level school district bond guarantee programs increase the likelihood …
Horton’S Odyssey: The Politics Of School Finance Reform In Connecticut, Lesley Denardis
Horton’S Odyssey: The Politics Of School Finance Reform In Connecticut, Lesley Denardis
Political Science & Global Affairs Faculty Publications
School finance reform has been one of the most controversial and contentious issues in public policy over the last thirty years. Public schools have served as battlegrounds over fundamental questions of equality, liberty, and access to social and economic opportunities. Since the historic decision rendered by the California Supreme Court in Serrano v. Priest (1971) equated public education with a fundamental right, a wave of legal and legislative reforms swept the nation including the state of Connecticut. Following the lead of California, plaintiffs in the Horton v.Meskill (1977) case argued that the Connecticut’s heavy reliance on the property tax to …