Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/96732
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8056
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes how changes in school expenditures affect dropout rates and standardized test scores based on data from 465 school districts in New York during the 2003/04 to the 2008/09 school years. Past traditional regression approaches show inconsistent results of school expenditures because of an endogeneity problem. The regression discontinuity design used in this study isolates exogenous variation in school expenditures per pupil by comparing school districts where budget referenda passed and failed by narrow margins. The results indicate that increases in school expenditures reduce dropout rates but have limited effects on student test scores.
Subjects: 
educational expenditures
school budget referenda
school dropout rates
student performance
JEL: 
I20
I21
I22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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