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Litigation, School Finance Reform, and Aggregate Educational Spending

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In the past two decades, litigation in many U.S. stateshas triggered educational reform movements designed to reducethe inequalities in educational expenditures across school districts.This paper uses a panel data set across all the states from 1970–1990to examine the role of litigation and educational finance reformin determining the level of education funding in a flexible,dynamic setting. An important finding of our work is that litigationand reform have differential effects across the states, in somecases leading to increases while in other cases decreases inpredicted spending.

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    Robert L. Manwaring

  2. Department of Economics, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616-8578

    Steven M. Sheffrin

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Manwaring, R.L., Sheffrin, S.M. Litigation, School Finance Reform, and Aggregate Educational Spending. International Tax and Public Finance 4, 107–127 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008661519528

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