Peer Reviewed Research

Beyond Spending Levels: Revenue Uncertainty and the Performance of Local Governments

Journal of Urban Economics

2018

Professor Stéphane Lavertu estimates the impact of revenue uncertainty on Ohio public school districts’ educational effectiveness.

Government Privatization and Political Participation: The Case of Charter Schools

Journal of Politics

2020

Professor Stéphane Lavertu and Vladimir Kogan explore if privatization could also affect citizen participation in democratic governance.

Journal of Public Economics

2020

Professors Stéphane Lavertu and Vladimir Kogan use close tax elections to estimate the impact of school district funding increases on operational spending and student outcomes.

American Journal of Political Science

2021

Professors Stéphane Lavertu and Vladimir Kogan investigates how the racial and ethnic composition of California school boards affects school district administration and student achievement.

The Democratic Deficit in U.S. Education Governance

American Political Science Review

2021

Professors Stéphane Lavertu and Vladimir Kogan compare voters and students in four states on several policy-relevant dimensions.

Rent-Seeking through Collective Bargaining: Teachers Unions and Education Production

Economics of Education Review

2020

Professor Stéphane Lavertu explores how teachers unions affect education production by comparing outcomes between districts allocating new tax revenue amidst collective bargaining negotiations and districts allocating tax revenue well before.

Testing Strategies to Increase Saving in Individual Development Account Programs

Journal of Economic Psychology

2018

Associate Professor Lauren Jones tests whether saving rates in a federally funded, matched, savings program for low-income families – the Individual Development Account program – can be improved through insights from behavioral economics.

The Impact of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Household Finances

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

2018

Associate Professor Lauren Jones analyzes how expansions to the federal and state Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC) affected household finances over the past two decades.

Wage and Employment Growth in America’s Drug Epidemic: Is All Growth Created Equal?

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

2018

Associate Professor Lauren Jones examines the narrative whereby opioid overdoses among white, male, less-educated, rural workers have been caused by reduced economic opportunities borne by such people.

Economic Inquiry

2019

Associate Professor Lauren Jones investigates whether savings and debt among EITC‐eligible families reflect the timing of payments.