Education Finance and Accountability Program
(EFAP)
 

Publications and Working Papers
 

• "Examining the Nature and Magnitude of Intra-District Resource Disparities in Four Mid-Size New York State School Districts," 2007. Paper prepared for the Education Finance Research Consortium. Larry Miller and Ross Rubenstein (Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University).

• "Maternal Work Hours and Adolescents' School Outcomes Among Low-Income Families in Four Urban Counties," 2007. Lisa A. Gennetian (The Brookings Institution, Economic Studies), Leonard M. Lopoo, and Andrew London. (Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University).
   

• "The Impact of School District Consolidation on Housing Prices," July, 2007. Yue Hu (Wisconsin Center for Education Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison) and John Yinger (Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University).
  

• "Municipal Bond Ratings and Citizens' Rights," May, 2007. John Yinger (Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University).
  
  

• "The Unintended Consequences of Property Tax Relief: New York State's STAR Program," January, 2007. Tae Ho Eom (Public Administration, Yonsei University), William Duncombe (Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University) and John Yinger (Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University).
  

• "Should Your High School Adopt Advanced Placement or a Concurrent Enrollment Program? An Expected Benefit Approach," forthcoming in Education Finance and Policy.  Donald H. Dutkowsky, Jerry M. Evensky (Department of Economics, Syracuse University) and Gerald S. Edmonds (Director, Syracuse University Project Advance).
  
  

• "Teaching College Economics in the High Schools: The Role of Concurrent Enrollment Programs," Fall 2006.  Donald H. Dutkowsky, Jerry M. Evensky  (Department of Economics, Syracuse University) and Gerald S. Edmonds  (Director, Syracuse University Project Advance). Journal of Economic Education 37 (4): 477-482.
  
  

• "Understanding the Incentives in California’s Education Finance System" December 2006.  William Duncombe and John Yinger (Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University).
  
  

• "The No Child Left Behind Act: Have Federal Funds Been Left Behind?"   September 2006.  William Duncombe (Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University), Anna Lukemeyer (University of Nevada at Las Vegas) and John Yinger (Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University).
   

• "Recruiting Highly Qualified Teachers: Do District Recruitment Practices Matter?"   July 2006.  William Duncombe, and Dana Balter (Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University). Forthcoming in Public Finance Review.
   

• "Responding to the Charge of Alchemy: Strategies for Evaluating the Reliability and Validity of Costing-Out Research,"   February 2006.  William Duncombe (Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University). Paper Presented at the O’Leary Symposium, Chicago, IL, February 17, 2006.  Forthcoming in the Journal of Education Finance.
  
  

• "New Stakes and Standards, Same Ol' Spending? Evidence from New York City High Schools." March 2005. Patricia Iatarola and Ross Rubenstein, Working Paper.
   

• "How Much More Does a Disadvantaged Student Cost? October, 2005, William Duncombe and John Yinger (Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University). Economics of Education Review, Vol. 24, No. 5, October, 2005, pp. 513-532.  http://www.sciencedirect.com/
   

• "Does School District Consolidation Cut Costs?"  November 2005. William Duncombe and John Yinger (Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University).
  
  

• Developing a Financial Condition Indicator System (FCIS) for New York State School Districts, May 2003. Special Report: by William Duncombe and Bernard Jump (Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University) and Salwa Ammar and Ronald Wright of Le Moyne College.
   

• "State Aid and the  Pursuit of Educational Equity: Lessons for New York," John Yinger (Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University), Educational Change: A Journal of Role Analysis and Institutional Change, Volume: Spring 2003-2004.
   

• "Do Whole-School Reform Programs Boost Student Performance?  The Case of New York City," Final Report submitted to the Smith Richardson Foundation by Robert Bifulco, Carolyn Bordeaux, William Duncombe and John Yinger.
  
  

• "Addressing Self-Selection Bias in Quasi-Experimental Evaluations of Whole-School Reform: A Comparison of Methods" Robert Bifulco (Duke University), Center for Child and Family Policy, Full Report
  
  

• "Alternative Paths to Property Tax Relief," William Duncombe and John Yinger Property Taxation and Local Government Finance, Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy,  Abstract.
   

• "Evaluating School Performance: Are We Ready for Prime-Time," Robert Bifulco and William Duncombe, Developments in School Finance, 1999-2000, in William J. Fowler (ed.) National Center for Education Statistics, Washington, DC., NCES 2002-316: 11-28.
   

• "Revisiting Economies of Size in Education: Are We Any Closer to a Consensus?" (Pre-Print article) Matthew Andrews, William Duncombe and John Yinger. Economics of Education Review, forthcoming.  Reprinted with permission from Elsevier Science *A single copy of this article can be downloaded or printed for your personal research and study. Abstract 
  
  

• "Identifying Low-Performance in Public Schools," Salwa Ammar, Robert Bifulco, William Duncombe and Ronald Wright, Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2000, pp. 259-287. Abstract
  
  

• "Financing Higher Student Performance Standards" The Case of New York State," William Duncombe and John Yinger. Economics of Education Review, October 2000, pp. 363-386. *A single copy of this article can be downloaded or printed for your personal research and study.
  ©2000 Elsevier. Reprinted with permission from Elsevier Science.  Abstract  
  
  

• "Performance Standards and Educational Cost Indexes: You Can't Have One Without the Other," William Duncombe and John Yinger.  Equity and Adequacy in Education Finance: Issues and Perspectives.  Chapter 8 in Helen F. Ladd, Rosemary Chalk, and Janet S. Hansen (eds.),Reprinted with permission from Equity and Adequacy in Education Finance: Issues and Perspectives. 
  ©1999 by the National Academy of Science. Courtesy of the National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. Abstract
  
  

• "Tax Policy and Public School Finance," Lloyd A. Blanchard and William D. Duncombe. Handbook on Taxation.  W. Bartley Hildreth and James A. Richardson (eds.),  Vol. 72 of Public Administration and Public Policy, Jack Rabin, Executive Editor. Abstract
  
  

• "Balancing Conflicting Policy Objectives: The Case of School Finance Reform," Jocelyn M. Johnston and William Duncombe. (©1999 Public Administration Review), 58(2): 145-158. This article may be used for research purposes, and no further distribution of this material is permitted without permission from the publishers. Abstract
  
  

• "Financing Higher Standards in Public Education: The Importance of Accounting for Educational Costs," William Duncombe and John Yinger. Center for Policy Research Policy Brief No.10/1998. Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 
  
  

• "School Finance Reform: Aid Formulas and Equity Objectives," William Duncombe and John Yinger. National Tax Journal, L1(2): 239-262. For reprint requests see http://ww.ntanet.org    Abstract
  
  

• "An Analysis of Two Educational Policy Changes  in New York State: Performance Standards and Property Tax Relief," William Duncombe and John Yinger. New York State Board of Regents Final Report: Educational Finance to Support High Learning Standards.(©1998 NYS Department of Education.  Reprinted with permission.) Abstract
  
  

• "Why Is It So Hard to Help Central Schools?" William Duncombe and John Yinger. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 16(1): 85-113.  Abstract
  
  

• "Empirical Evaluation of Bureaucratic Models of Inefficiency," William Duncombe, Jerry Miner, and John Ruggiero. Public Choice 93: 1-18.  ©1997 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Reprinted with kind permission from Kluwer Academic Publishers. Abstract
  
  

• "Alternative Approaches to Measuring the Cost of Education," William Duncombe, John Ruggiero, and John Yinger. Chapter 10 in Helen F. Ladd, (ed.), Holding Schools Accountable: Performance-Based Reform in Education.
  ©1996 The Brookings Institution. Reprinted with permission. Abstract
  
  

• "Potential Cost Savings from School District Consolidation:  A Case Study of New York," William Duncombe, Jerry Miner, and John Ruggiero, Economics of Education Review, 14(3): 265-284. (©1995 Elsevier) Reprinted with permission from Elsevier Science. *A single copy of this article can be downloaded or printed for our personal research and study. Abstract  
  
  

• "On the Measurement and Causes of Technical Inefficiency in Local Public Services: With an Application to Public Education," John Ruggiero, William Duncombe, and Jerry Miner. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 5(4): 403-428.  Abstract
  
  

• "The Case for Equalizing Aid," Helen Ladd and John Yinger. National Tax Journal, March 1994, pp. 221-224. For reprint requests see http://ww.ntanet.org.
  
  

• "The Fiscal Condition of School Districts in Nebraska: Is Small Beautiful?" Kerri Ratcliffe, Bruce Riddle and John Yinger.  Economics of Education Review, Jan.1990, pp. 81-99. 
  ©1990 Elsevier. Reprinted with permission from Elsevier Science. *A single copy of this article can be downloaded or printed for our personal research and study. Abstract
  
  

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