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Casinos Would Not Help New York’S Schools, John Yinger Sep 2013

Casinos Would Not Help New York’S Schools, John Yinger

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It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.


Redlining In California School Bond Ratings, John Yinger Jun 2013

Redlining In California School Bond Ratings, John Yinger

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It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.


A Tribute To William D. Duncombe, John Yinger May 2013

A Tribute To William D. Duncombe, John Yinger

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It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.


Still Unknown: The Impact Of School Capital On Student Performance, John Yinger Dec 2012

Still Unknown: The Impact Of School Capital On Student Performance, John Yinger

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It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.


A Missed Opportunity In California, John Yinger Nov 2012

A Missed Opportunity In California, John Yinger

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It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.


Holding Tax Shares Constant Is A Bad Idea: What The Homestead Tax Option In New York Can Teach Us About Romney’S Income Tax Proposal, John Yinger Oct 2012

Holding Tax Shares Constant Is A Bad Idea: What The Homestead Tax Option In New York Can Teach Us About Romney’S Income Tax Proposal, John Yinger

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It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.


Reforming State Education Aid In New York State, John Yinger Sep 2012

Reforming State Education Aid In New York State, John Yinger

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It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.


Four Flaws In New York State’S Property Taxes And How To Fix Them: Small Assessment Units, John Yinger Aug 2012

Four Flaws In New York State’S Property Taxes And How To Fix Them: Small Assessment Units, John Yinger

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It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.


Four Flaws In New York State’S Property Taxes And How To Fix Them: The Homestead Option, John Yinger Jul 2012

Four Flaws In New York State’S Property Taxes And How To Fix Them: The Homestead Option, John Yinger

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It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.


Four Flaws In New York State’S Property Taxes And How To Fix Them: Levy Limits, John Yinger Jun 2012

Four Flaws In New York State’S Property Taxes And How To Fix Them: Levy Limits, John Yinger

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It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.


Four Flaws In New York State’S Property Taxes And How To Fix Them: Star, John Yinger May 2012

Four Flaws In New York State’S Property Taxes And How To Fix Them: Star, John Yinger

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It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.


Can Propensity Score Analysis Relplicate Estimates Based On Random Evaluations Of School Choice? A Within-Study Comparison, Robert Bifulco Sep 2010

Can Propensity Score Analysis Relplicate Estimates Based On Random Evaluations Of School Choice? A Within-Study Comparison, Robert Bifulco

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The ability of propensity score analysis (PSA) to match impact estimates derived from random assignment (RA) is examined using data from the evaluation of two interdistrict magnet schools. As in previous within study comparisons, the estimates provided by PSA and RA differ substantially when PSA is implemented using comparison groups that are not similar to the treatment group and without pretreatment measures of academic performance. Adding pretreatment measures of the performance to the PSA, however, substantially improves the match between PSA and RA estimates. Although the results should not be generalized too readily, they suggest that nonexperimental estimators can, in …


The Value Of A Statistical Life: Evidence From Panel Data, Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi, Christopher Woock Mar 2010

The Value Of A Statistical Life: Evidence From Panel Data, Thomas J. Kniesner, W. Kip Viscusi, Christopher Woock

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Our research addresses fundamental long-standing concerns in the compensating wage differentials literature and its public policy implications: the econometric properties of estimates of the value of statistical life (VSL) and the wide range of such estimates from about $0 to almost $30 million. Here we address most of the prominent econometric issues by applying panel data, a new and more accurate fatality risk measure, and systematic application of panel data estimators. Controlling for measurement error, endogeneity, latent individual heterogeneity that may be correlated with the regressors, state dependence, and sample composition yields an estimated value of a statistical life of …


Panel Data Inference Under Spatial Dependence, Badi H. Baltagi, Alain Pirotte Jan 2010

Panel Data Inference Under Spatial Dependence, Badi H. Baltagi, Alain Pirotte

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This paper focuses on inference based on the usual panel data estimators of a one-way error component regression model when the true specification is a spatial error component model. Among the estimators considered, are pooled OLS, random and fixed effects, maximum likelihood under normality, etc. The spatial effects capture the cross-section dependence, and the usual panel data estimators ignore this dependence. Two popular forms of spatial autocorrelation are considered, namely, spatial auto-regressive random effects (SAR-RE) and spatial moving average random effects (SMA-RE). We show that when the spatial coefficients are large, test of hypothesis based on the usual panel data …


A Review Of Real Education By Charles Murray, John Yinger Oct 2008

A Review Of Real Education By Charles Murray, John Yinger

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It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.


Why A Property Tax Cap Is A Bad Idea For New York, John Yinger Jun 2008

Why A Property Tax Cap Is A Bad Idea For New York, John Yinger

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It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.


The Preliminary Report Of The New York Commission On Property Tax Relief, John Yinger May 2008

The Preliminary Report Of The New York Commission On Property Tax Relief, John Yinger

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It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.


Reform In New York State’S Education Aid Formula?, John Yinger Apr 2008

Reform In New York State’S Education Aid Formula?, John Yinger

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It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.


Is A Circuit Breaker The Solution For Property Tax Relief In New York?, John Yinger Mar 2008

Is A Circuit Breaker The Solution For Property Tax Relief In New York?, John Yinger

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It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.


Property Tax Relief In New York State, John Yinger Feb 2008

Property Tax Relief In New York State, John Yinger

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It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.


Don’T Gamble With New York’S Lottery, John Yinger Jan 2008

Don’T Gamble With New York’S Lottery, John Yinger

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It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.


The Impact Of Class Size On Teacher Retention, John Yinger Sep 2007

The Impact Of Class Size On Teacher Retention, John Yinger

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It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.


The Impact Of School-District Consolidation On Property Values, John Yinger Aug 2007

The Impact Of School-District Consolidation On Property Values, John Yinger

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It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.


Teacher Attrition In Upstate New York, John Yinger Jul 2007

Teacher Attrition In Upstate New York, John Yinger

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It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.


Production Functions And Cost Functions For Public Education, John Yinger May 2007

Production Functions And Cost Functions For Public Education, John Yinger

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It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.


Education Finance In California Part 3: Lessons, John Yinger Apr 2007

Education Finance In California Part 3: Lessons, John Yinger

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It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.


Education Finance In California Part 2: The Parcel Tax, John Yinger Mar 2007

Education Finance In California Part 2: The Parcel Tax, John Yinger

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It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.


Education Finance In California Part 1: Is California Unique?, John Yinger Feb 2007

Education Finance In California Part 1: Is California Unique?, John Yinger

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It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.


The Cfe Decision: A Cautionary Tale About The Use Of Numbers, John Yinger Jan 2007

The Cfe Decision: A Cautionary Tale About The Use Of Numbers, John Yinger

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It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.


How The No Child Left Behind Act Punishes Schools With Disadvantaged Students, John Yinger Dec 2006

How The No Child Left Behind Act Punishes Schools With Disadvantaged Students, John Yinger

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It’s Elementary is a series of essays on topics in education and education policy. The main focus is on education finance in New York State, but general research findings in education and education policy issues in several other states are also discussed. John Yinger, Professor of Economics and Public Administration at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University is the author of most of these essays, although a few are written by or co-authored with other scholars.