Education
Finance
and Accountability
Program
(EFAP)
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John Yinger Director |
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William Duncombe Associate Director |
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Jerry Miner Senior Associate |
Ross Rubenstein Senior Associate |
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Robert Bifulco Senior Associate |
Jerry Miner Lecture Series

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.
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The distinguished scholars who
have given this lecture are: |
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| 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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