Pub Date : 2025-02-12DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2025.102636
Mark J. Chin , Lena Shi
In the U.S., state politicians directly influence legislation and budget decisions that can substantially affect public education spending and students. (When) does the political party of elected officials matter for these outcomes? We introduce a novel multi-dimensional regression discontinuity design to analyze close legislative elections from 1987 to 2019 and find that the impact of Democratic control of state government depends on election timing. Democratic state houses appropriate fewer dollars to K-12 education following a presidential election year, but significantly more during off-cycle elections. These patterns are magnified—for both K-12 and higher education—when Democrats control both legislative chambers. Increases in appropriations coincide with increased current expenditures in K-12 and higher high school diploma rates. Our results highlight the importance of considering how federal political contexts and control over multiple government branches influence the effects of partisanship on states’ education finance and outcomes.
{"title":"Average and heterogeneous effects of political party on state education finance and outcomes: Regression discontinuity evidence across U.S. election cycles","authors":"Mark J. Chin , Lena Shi","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2025.102636","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2025.102636","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the U.S., state politicians directly influence legislation and budget decisions that can substantially affect public education spending and students. (When) does the political party of elected officials matter for these outcomes? We introduce a novel multi-dimensional regression discontinuity design to analyze close legislative elections from 1987 to 2019 and find that the impact of Democratic control of state government depends on election timing. Democratic state houses appropriate fewer dollars to K-12 education following a presidential election year, but significantly more during off-cycle elections. These patterns are magnified—for both K-12 and higher education—when Democrats control both legislative chambers. Increases in appropriations coincide with increased current expenditures in K-12 and higher high school diploma rates. Our results highlight the importance of considering how federal political contexts and control over multiple government branches influence the effects of partisanship on states’ education finance and outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"105 ","pages":"Article 102636"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143386417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-07DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2025.102634
Wendy Stock , Gunnar Schultz
Children with disabilities face substantial hurdles in obtaining education. Special education (SE) can potentially improve outcomes for these children, but identifying and providing services to eligible students is problematic, particularly for low-income children and children with “invisible” or “malleable” disabilities like dyslexia, anxiety, or ADHD. At the same time, there is no consensus that SE enrollment is uniformly positive. There are concerns about stigma, bias in the process, and the impact of expanding SE budgets on general education funding. Exploiting variation in expansions to Medicaid eligibility by state, year, and age, we find that increases in Medicaid eligibility generated increased average rates of SE enrollment, with effects concentrated among elementary school children, those with malleable disabilities, and those for whom Medicaid expansions were on the intensive margin (gaining additional years of Medicaid eligibility) rather than in the extensive margin (gaining initial eligibility for Medicaid). At the same time, however, children who had more early childhood Medicaid eligibility before they started elementary school were less likely to be enrolled in SE than their peers, implying that gaining access to Medicaid in early childhood generated access to screening and treatment that reduced the need for SE support in elementary school. Because federal law requires that Medicaid be the primary payer to schools that provide SE services, the estimates suggest that by dramatically reducing SE enrollment among those with more early childhood Medicaid eligibility and by modestly expanding SE enrollment on the intensive margin, Medicaid expansions likely mitigated the impacts of SE spending on general education budgets.
{"title":"Public health insurance and special education enrollment","authors":"Wendy Stock , Gunnar Schultz","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2025.102634","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2025.102634","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Children with disabilities face substantial hurdles in obtaining education. Special education (SE) can potentially improve outcomes for these children, but identifying and providing services to eligible students is problematic, particularly for low-income children and children with “invisible” or “malleable” disabilities like dyslexia, anxiety, or ADHD. At the same time, there is no consensus that SE enrollment is uniformly positive. There are concerns about stigma, bias in the process, and the impact of expanding SE budgets on general education funding. Exploiting variation in expansions to Medicaid eligibility by state, year, and age, we find that increases in Medicaid eligibility generated increased average rates of SE enrollment, with effects concentrated among elementary school children, those with malleable disabilities, and those for whom Medicaid expansions were on the intensive margin (gaining additional years of Medicaid eligibility) rather than in the extensive margin (gaining initial eligibility for Medicaid). At the same time, however, children who had more early childhood Medicaid eligibility before they started elementary school were less likely to be enrolled in SE than their peers, implying that gaining access to Medicaid in early childhood generated access to screening and treatment that reduced the need for SE support in elementary school. Because federal law requires that Medicaid be the primary payer to schools that provide SE services, the estimates suggest that by dramatically reducing SE enrollment among those with more early childhood Medicaid eligibility and by modestly expanding SE enrollment on the intensive margin, Medicaid expansions likely mitigated the impacts of SE spending on general education budgets.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"105 ","pages":"Article 102634"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143348496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102608
Sönke Hendrik Matthewes , Camilla Borgna
This paper estimates how marginal increases in the flexibility of between-school tracking affect student attainment by exploiting the addition of non-selective ‘comprehensive schools’ and hybrid ‘vocational high schools’ to Germany’s tracked school system. These schools opened up alternative pathways to the university-entrance certificate, which traditionally could only be obtained at academic-track schools. We use administrative records to compile a county-level panel of school supply and attainment for 13 cohorts between 1995 and 2007. Cross-sectionally, the supplies of all three school types awarding the university-entrance certificate correlate positively with its attainment. However, for academic-track and comprehensive schools this association is not robust to the inclusion of regional controls, suggesting that it reflects regional differences in educational demand rather than supply-side effects. For vocational high schools, in contrast, we find robust evidence for positive attainment effects not only in cross-sectional and two-way fixed-effects panel regressions, but also in an event-study design that exploits the quasi-random timing of new school openings. Likely reasons for their success are that they lower the (perceived) costs of educational upgrading for late-bloomers, and their hybrid curriculum, which may retain students in general schooling who would otherwise enter vocational training.
{"title":"De-tracking at the margin: How alternative secondary education pathways affect student attainment","authors":"Sönke Hendrik Matthewes , Camilla Borgna","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102608","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102608","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper estimates how marginal increases in the flexibility of between-school tracking affect student attainment by exploiting the addition of non-selective ‘comprehensive schools’ and hybrid ‘vocational high schools’ to Germany’s tracked school system. These schools opened up alternative pathways to the university-entrance certificate, which traditionally could only be obtained at academic-track schools. We use administrative records to compile a county-level panel of school supply and attainment for 13 cohorts between 1995 and 2007. Cross-sectionally, the supplies of all three school types awarding the university-entrance certificate correlate positively with its attainment. However, for academic-track and comprehensive schools this association is not robust to the inclusion of regional controls, suggesting that it reflects regional differences in educational demand rather than supply-side effects. For vocational high schools, in contrast, we find robust evidence for positive attainment effects not only in cross-sectional and two-way fixed-effects panel regressions, but also in an event-study design that exploits the quasi-random timing of new school openings. Likely reasons for their success are that they lower the (perceived) costs of educational upgrading for late-bloomers, and their hybrid curriculum, which may retain students in general schooling who would otherwise enter vocational training.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"104 ","pages":"Article 102608"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143140943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102605
Luna Bellani , Marisa Hidalgo-Hidalgo
Gender disparity is present in many aspects of life, especially in politics. This paper provides new evidence on the impact of women’s education on political representation focusing on several European countries. We combine multi-country data from the Gender Statistics Database of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) and from the European Social Survey (ESS). Using an IV strategy, we find that increased female education significantly increases the percentage of women elected to regional parliaments. We then explore possible channels at the individual level and find that education increases women’s interest in politics and induces more egalitarian views about gender roles in society among women, although it fails to do so among men.
{"title":"Bridging the gender gap: Women’s education and political representation","authors":"Luna Bellani , Marisa Hidalgo-Hidalgo","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102605","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102605","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Gender disparity is present in many aspects of life, especially in politics. This paper provides new evidence on the impact of women’s education on political representation focusing on several European countries. We combine multi-country data from the Gender Statistics Database of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) and from the European Social Survey (ESS). Using an IV strategy, we find that increased female education significantly increases the percentage of women elected to regional parliaments. We then explore possible channels at the individual level and find that education increases women’s interest in politics and induces more egalitarian views about gender roles in society among women, although it fails to do so among men.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"104 ","pages":"Article 102605"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143140950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102616
Marco Bertoni , Quynh Huynh , Lorenzo Rocco
This paper estimates the effect of the Vietnam Hunger Eradication and Poverty Reduction (HEPR) program on school enrollment and shows how it changes by age at first treatment. Using longitudinal data that span over 15 years and a difference-in-differences research design, we find that early treatment (age 8) increases enrollment by 9.9 percentage points. In contrast, the enrollment of children receiving treatment at later ages (age 12 and 15) is either unaffected or even reduced in rural areas, where it is paralleled by an increase in labor market participation. These divergent results by age and area of residence depend on two components: first, the effect of subsidizing education declines with the age of first treatment; second, starting from age 15, HEPR beneficiaries residing in rural areas are entitled with free access to the Vocational Training Program, which favors a prompt transition to the labor market.
{"title":"The age gradient in the effects of poverty alleviation program on schooling. Evidence from the Vietnam hunger eradication and poverty reduction program","authors":"Marco Bertoni , Quynh Huynh , Lorenzo Rocco","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102616","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102616","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper estimates the effect of the Vietnam Hunger Eradication and Poverty Reduction (HEPR) program on school enrollment and shows how it changes by age at first treatment. Using longitudinal data that span over 15 years and a difference-in-differences research design, we find that early treatment (age 8) increases enrollment by 9.9 percentage points. In contrast, the enrollment of children receiving treatment at later ages (age 12 and 15) is either unaffected or even reduced in rural areas, where it is paralleled by an increase in labor market participation. These divergent results by age and area of residence depend on two components: first, the effect of subsidizing education declines with the age of first treatment; second, starting from age 15, HEPR beneficiaries residing in rural areas are entitled with free access to the Vocational Training Program, which favors a prompt transition to the labor market.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"104 ","pages":"Article 102616"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143140951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102618
Sie Won Kim
In 202122, Texas implemented a policy requiring all public high school seniors to complete a financial aid application. This paper examines the early impacts of this requirement on Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) completion rates and college enrollment using a difference-in-differences model. First, using a sample of high schools in Texas, I find that the FAFSA requirement increases FAFSA completion rates in public schools by percentage points relative to private schools. Second, using a multi-valued discrete treatment, I find positive effects on FAFSA completion rates across all treated schools, ranging from to percentage points. Furthermore, this increase in FAFSA completion rates is associated with an increase in college enrollment for schools with lower pre-treatment FAFSA completion rates.
{"title":"Early impacts of the FAFSA requirement in Texas","authors":"Sie Won Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102618","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102618","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In 2021<span><math><mo>−</mo></math></span>22, Texas implemented a policy requiring all public high school seniors to complete a financial aid application. This paper examines the early impacts of this requirement on Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) completion rates and college enrollment using a difference-in-differences model. First, using a sample of high schools in Texas, I find that the FAFSA requirement increases FAFSA completion rates in public schools by <span><math><mrow><mn>6</mn><mo>.</mo><mn>3</mn></mrow></math></span> percentage points relative to private schools. Second, using a multi-valued discrete treatment, I find positive effects on FAFSA completion rates across all treated schools, ranging from <span><math><mrow><mn>3</mn><mo>.</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></math></span> to <span><math><mn>7</mn></math></span> percentage points. Furthermore, this increase in FAFSA completion rates is associated with an increase in college enrollment for schools with lower pre-treatment FAFSA completion rates.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"104 ","pages":"Article 102618"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143140955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102617
Perihan O. Saygin , Xi Zhang
The disparity in teaching evaluations between male and female instructors is well documented. This paper demonstrates that, even when controlling for specific components of the same evaluation surveys, students tend to give lower overall ratings to female instructors compared to their male counterparts. Importantly, on popular rating platforms used by students, the average overall ratings are more prominently displayed than the detailed components of these evaluations. To explore the potential implications of this, we analyze data from two widely used teaching evaluation tools at a U.S. public research university: the online platform RateMyProfessors.com (RMP) and official university-conducted evaluations. By merging RMP ratings, official evaluations, and course enrollment data, we find that RMP’s overall quality ratings have a greater influence on course enrollment than official evaluations, particularly affecting the enrollment decisions of female students. Additionally, our analysis reveals that conditional on all of these evaluations, male students have lower enrollment rates in the sections of the same courses offered by female instructors even when accounting for the average grades in these courses from previous semesters.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102604
Etienne Dagorn, Léonard Moulin
This study empirically examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on university students’ enrollment behaviors using a comprehensive database of university enrollments from 2012 to 2022. Our analysis reveals a 3.7% decline in the probability of re-enrollment for the subsequent academic year among the first cohort affected by the pandemic. This effect is particularly pronounced among students entering university, as well as among non-free lunch students, international students, and male students. The medium-term analysis indicates that the pandemic led to a significant shift in enrollment behaviors, decreasing the likelihood of enrolling in subsequent years and reducing graduation rates two years after the pandemic. Moreover, we find that exposure to stricter lockdown policies led to a 3.8% decrease in enrollment behaviors. We investigate three potential mechanisms: (i) exposure to the pandemic, (ii) labor market opportunities, and (iii) university quality. However, we find little evidence to support that these factors are significantly associated with changes in enrollment behaviors. These findings contribute to our understanding of the disruptive consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on students’ educational trajectories and highlight its lasting impact on enrollment behaviors.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2025.102621
Bryan C. McCannon
I ask whether the addition of a college football team playing at the Division III level effects three dimensions to an institution’s success: enrollment, gender balance, and endowment. I consider all higher education institutions in the U.S. which compete in Division III athletics and evaluate the impact of adding college football. I find that the overall effect on undergraduate enrollment is statistically indistinguishable from zero. Further, I show that the proportion of the student body who are women falls. Finally, I are unable to provide evidence that the drawing of the endowments prior to football’s adoption slowed.
{"title":"Does starting a Division III college football program benefit the institution?","authors":"Bryan C. McCannon","doi":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2025.102621","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.econedurev.2025.102621","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>I ask whether the addition of a college football team playing at the Division III level effects three dimensions to an institution’s success: enrollment, gender balance, and endowment. I consider all higher education institutions in the U.S. which compete in Division III athletics and evaluate the impact of adding college football. I find that the overall effect on undergraduate enrollment is statistically indistinguishable from zero. Further, I show that the proportion of the student body who are women falls. Finally, I are unable to provide evidence that the drawing of the endowments prior to football’s adoption slowed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48261,"journal":{"name":"Economics of Education Review","volume":"104 ","pages":"Article 102621"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143140956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102620
Nurfatima Jandarova
Current literature offers several potential channels through which jobless parents can affect children. In this paper, I provide new evidence based on variation across intelligence of children. The results suggest that loss of human capital investments into children is the driving mechanism. I find that gap in education widens with higher intelligence, while the gap in labour-market outcomes narrows. I rationalise these findings using the skill formation and employer learning theories.
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