Poverty And Proficiency: The Cost Of And Demand For Local Public Education (A Textbook In Education Finance)

by John Yinger

Overview

This book covers a wide range of topics in education finance. It is designed to introduce the literature on education finance to scholars and prospective scholars and can be used as a textbook for a graduate-level education finance class. The topics in the book include the incidence of the property tax as a source of revenue for elementary and secondary education, how much more it costs to reach a state's education targets in a high-poverty school district than in a rich district, the design of state education aid programs, the impact of school quality on house values, the cost implications of school district consolidations, and the impact of state aid on school infrastructure.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789811201608
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	03/09/2020
Pages:	740
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 1.56(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; The Property Tax; Cost Functions for Public Education; The Demand for Public Education; State Aid to Education; School Quality and Property Values; School District Consolidation; School Infrastructure; Appendices