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DOES IT PAY TO GET AN A? SCHOOL RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS IN RESPONSE TO ACCOUNTABILITY RATINGS
- Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- This paper examines whether school districts, and individual schools, respond to ratings from the accountability system by reallocating resources across or within schools. Our empirical work follows three identification strategies, a regression discontinuity for schools on the rating boundaries, a “rating shock” analysis for schools that face a change in rating when the state changed its accountability system, and a school fixed effects strategy. We find that school districts provided incentives for their schools to achieve higher ratings under the early accountability system, but under the later system they appear to have abandoned this strategy. In addition, the rating shock results suggest that some effort was directed towards assisting lower performing schools under the new regime. Finally, we find that in the early period incremental funds were used as much for ancillary purposes as instruction.
- Subjects :
- Economics and Econometrics
ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION
Public economics
business.industry
Institutional change
education
Accounting
School district
Accountability system
Budget support
Test (assessment)
Urban Studies
Identification (information)
Shock (economics)
Incentive
Accountability
Regression discontinuity design
ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION
Economics
sense organs
skin and connective tissue diseases
business
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9f0bb2a1e6455bd3f047f8cf1810ff51