Randall Reback
rreback@barnard.edu

Local Public Finance

"Fiscal Spillovers between Local Governments: Keeping up with the Joneses' School District", [Oct. 2008 draft]

"Local Tax Price Discrimination in an Aging Society", [Oct. 2009 draft]

School Accountability

"Teaching to the Rating: School Accountability and the Distribution of Student Achievement," Journal of Public Economics , June 2008 [PDF] [Corrigendum for Table 4]

"Tinkering Towards Accolades: School Gaming under a Performance Accountability System" (joint with Julie Cullen). Advances in Applied Microeconomics 14, (2006) [PDF]

School-based Mental Health Services

"Non-Instructional Spending Improves Non-Cognitive Outcomes: Discontinuity Evidence from a Unique School Counselor Financing System," forthcoming, Education Finance & Policy [PDF]

"Schools' Mental Health Services and Young Children's Emotions, Behavior, and Learning," [June 2009 draft]


School Choice

"House Prices and the Provision of Public Services: Capitalization under School Choice Programs," Journal of Urban Economics 57(2), (March 2005) [abstract] [PDF]

"Demand (and Supply) in an Inter-district Public School Choice Program," Economics of Education Review, August 2008 [PDF]


Teacher Labor Markets

"The Impact of College Course Offerings on the Supply of Academically Talented Public School Teachers." Journal of Econometrics 121, (July, 2004), pp. 377-404.[abstract] [PDF]

"Entry Costs and the Supply of Public School Teachers." Education Finance & Policy, (Spring 2006) [abstract] [PDF]


Ability Segregation Across Schools

"Jockeying for Position: High School Student Mobility and Texas' Top Ten Percent Rule" (joint with Julie Cullen and Mark Long) [abstract]


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