Education Finance and Accountability Program
(EFAP)
 

    John Yinger
Director
   
         
    William Duncombe
Associate Director
   
         
  Jerry Miner
Senior Associate
  Ross Rubenstein
Senior Associate
 
         
    Robert Bifulco
Senior Associate
   
 Jerry Miner Lecture Series
Jerry Miner, Emeritus Professor
This annual lecture is sponsored by EFAP and named in honor of Emeritus Professor Jerry Miner, an EFAP faculty associate who is widely known for his research in public finance in general and education finance in particular, ad who may be the only person on earth who understands the New York State Education aid formulas.

The distinguished scholars who have given this lecture are:

2008: Steven Rivkin, Amherst College, "School Quality and the Black-White Achievement Gap."
   
2007: Thomas Downes, Tufts University, "Alternative Revenue Generation in Vermont Public Schools: Raising Funds Outside the Tax Base to Support Public Education."
   
2006 James Wyckoff, SUNY-Albany, The Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, "How Changes in Entry Requirements Alter the Teacher Workforce and Affect Student Achievement."
   
2005:

Leanna Stiefel, New York University, "Disentangling the Racial Test Score Gap:  Probing the Evidence in a Large Urban School District."

2004 Hamilton Lankford, SUNY-Albany, "Analyzing the Determinants of the Matching of Public School Teachers to Jobs:  Estimating Compensating Differentials in Imperfect Labor Markets."
   
2003: Cecilia E. Rouse, Princeton University, "A Short-Term Study of the Impact of Florida’s A+ Plan on Schools."
   
2002 Helen Ladd, Duke University, "Implementing Value-Added Measures of School Effectiveness:  Getting the Incentives Right."
   
2001: Howard S. Bloom, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, "Measuring the Impacts of Whole School Reforms: Methodological Lessons from an Evaluation of Accelerated Schools.

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