Educational Expenditures and Outcomes.

• Author: Van Doren, Peter

* "Pricing Neighborhoods," by Sadegh Eshaghnia, James J. Heckman, and Goya Razavi. SSRN Working Paper no. 4477536, June 2023.

Educational inequality is often attributed to expenditure differences across school districts. And public-school funding equalization is an explicit goal of many educational reform advocates as well as state-level constitutional litigation.

In Denmark, per-pupil expenditures and teacher salaries are mandated to be equal across public schools except for students with special needs and for cost-of-living adjustments. Despite the equalization, high-quality teachers are attracted to schools with high-quality students and parents.

Controlling...