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| Walden, Michael L.; Sisak, Mark R.. |
| The relationship between student achievement and school inputs has long been a subject of academic research. The general conclusion of past research is that school inputs, such as the number of teachers relative to pupils, has little impact on student academic outcomes. This paper provides a fresh look at this issue. Seventeen alternative measures of student performance in North Carolina school districts are related to a wide array of school policy inputs and socioeconomic characteristics of students and their families. Both static and dynamic analyses are performed. The key findings are (1) the school policy inputs significantly related to student achievement vary by the measure of student achievement used, (2) the joint contribution of school policy... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Public education; Student achievement; Public Economics. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15155 |
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| Walden, Michael L.; Denaux, Zulal Sogutlu. |
| Financing local public goods is a major issue in many communities, especially those that have experienced rapid growth. This paper analyzes problems associated with locally collected real property taxes where the real property tax base is only revaluated at long time intervals. Using counties in North Carolina as the subject of the analysis, we find that effective real property tax rates fall between revaluations. We calculate that a system of taxing market values of real property at a constant legislated tax rate would have yielded additional annual revenues of $320 million for North Carolina counties over 1980 to 1995. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Local public finance; Property taxation; Real property revaluation; Public Economics. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15511 |
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