Politics, Empirical Evidence, and Policy Design: The Case of School Finance and the Costs of Educational Adequacy

2008 ◽  
pp. 325-351
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
School Finance ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Educational Adequacy

School Finance Systems: Aging Structures in Need of Renovation

1998 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Odden ◽  
William H. Clune
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
School Finance ◽  
Performance Enhancement ◽  
Fiscal Equity ◽  
Educational Adequacy ◽  
Traditional School ◽  
New School ◽  
School Based ◽  
Aging Structures

This article argues that traditional school finance systems are aging structures in need of dramatic change to make them more supportive of the goals and strategies of standards-and school-based education reform. This article reviews the shortcomings of current finance structures, provides several suggestions for changing school finance structures, including a shift from fiscal equity toward educational adequacy, and also suggests several performance enhancement elements that could enhance such new school finance systems.

scholarly journals Patents and Research Investments: Assessing the Empirical Evidence

2016 ◽  
Vol 106 (5) ◽  
pp. 183-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Budish ◽  
Benjamin N. Roin ◽  
Heidi Williams
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Small Body ◽  
Patent Policy ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Empirical Question ◽  
The Core ◽  
Patent Term ◽  
Research Investments ◽  
D Investment

A well-developed theoretical literature--dating back at least to Nordhaus (1969)--has analyzed optimal patent policy design. We re-present the core trade-off of the Nordhaus model and highlight an empirical question which emerges from the Nordhaus framework as a key input into optimal patent policy design: namely, what is the elasticity of R&D investment with respect to the patent term? We then review the--surprisingly small--body of empirical evidence that has been developed on this question over the nearly half century since the publication of Nordhaus's book.

Courts Continue to Address the Wealth Disparity Issue

1989 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael W. La Morte
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
School Finance ◽  
Appellate Court ◽  
State Supreme Courts ◽  
State School ◽  
Educational Adequacy ◽  
Supreme Courts ◽  
School Finance Litigation ◽  
School Financing ◽  
The U.S

Lawsuits in nearly three dozen states have challenged the constitutionality of state school finance provisions on equal protection or educational adequacy grounds. Presently, the U.S. Supreme Court, a federal appellate court, and 10 state supreme courts have upheld state provisions, and 7 state supreme courts have held school financing provisions unconstitutional. Although wealth-related school finance litigation began in 1968 and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the issue in 1973, the judicial caldron continues to boil. Protracted rounds of litigation over the years in several states and a rash of recent suits reveal this issue to remain lively and contentious.

scholarly journals Are Efficiency and Equity in School Finance Substitutes or Complements?

1996 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 51-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Minter Hoxby
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
School Finance ◽  
Local School ◽  
Ideal System

This paper analyzes cases made for local and centralized school finance and policies such as vouchers, categorical aid, and equalization aid. An ideal system of school finance would achieve efficiency and equity by ensuring every person invests in the amount of schooling that is socially optimal for him. The author evaluates the empirical evidence for, and the merit and importance of, arguments for each policy. She concludes that the theoretical arguments for centralized finance not only exaggerate the efficiency-equity tradeoff but actually make better arguments for a system combining local school finance with categorical aid and means-tested vouchers.

Challenges to the social motivation theory of autism: The dangers of counteracting an imprecise theory with even more imprecision

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirko Uljarević ◽  
Giacomo Vivanti ◽  
Susan R. Leekam ◽  
Antonio Y. Hardan
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Social Motivation ◽  
Motivation Theory ◽  
The Social

Abstract The arguments offered by Jaswal & Akhtar to counter the social motivation theory (SMT) do not appear to be directly related to the SMT tenets and predictions, seem to not be empirically testable, and are inconsistent with empirical evidence. To evaluate the merits and shortcomings of the SMT and identify scientifically testable alternatives, advances are needed on the conceptualization and operationalization of social motivation across diagnostic boundaries.

Integrating perspectives: How the development of second-personal competence lays the foundation for a second-personal morality

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Corbit ◽  
Chris Moore
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Developmental Process ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Personal Competence ◽  
Triadic Interactions ◽  
Personal Morality ◽  
Integrative Process

Abstract The integration of first-, second-, and third-personal information within joint intentional collaboration provides the foundation for broad-based second-personal morality. We offer two additions to this framework: a description of the developmental process through which second-personal competence emerges from early triadic interactions, and empirical evidence that collaboration with a concrete goal may provide an essential focal point for this integrative process.

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