OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Education Finance and Policy is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Gifted & Talented Programs and Racial Segregation	34
How Well Do Professional Reference Ratings Predict Teacher Performance?	33
Balancing State and Local Power over School Districts’ Finances	31
Labor Market Trajectories for Community College Graduates: How Returns to Certificates and Associate's Degrees Evolve Over Time	19
Advanced Placement and Initial College Enrollment: Evidence from an Experiment	19
Out of the Gate, But Not Necessarily Teaching: A Descriptive Portrait of Early Career Earnings for Those Who Are Credentialed to Teach	17
Experimental Estimates of College Coaching on Postsecondary Reenrollment	17
The Effect of Bonuses on Teacher Retention and Student Learning in Rural Schools: A Story of Spillovers	13
The Impact of Teacher Labor Market Reforms on Student Achievement: Evidence from Michigan	11
Comprehensive Support and Student Success: Can Out of School Time Make a Difference?	9
Sibling Gender Effects on Test Scores	8
The External Validity of College Remediation Effects: Caveats about Compliers in Fuzzy-Discontinuity Designs	8
Pandemic-Era School Staff Shortages: Evidence from Unfilled Position Data in Illinois	8
Can Technology Transform Communication Between Schools, Teachers, and Parents? Evidence from a Randomized Field Trial	8
The Impact of School Desegregation on White Individuals' Racial Attitudes and Politics in Adulthood	7
A Classroom Observer Like Me: The Effects of Race-Congruence and Gender-Congruence between Teachers and Raters on Observation Scores	7
State-Level Common Application Policies and College Enrollment	7
COVID-19 Crisis, Economic Hardships, and Schooling Outcomes	7
In-State Tuition Policies and the College Decisions of Undocumented Students: Evidence from Colorado	6
Does Developmental Education Reform Help or Hinder the Success of Language Minority Students? An Exploration by Language Minority, ESOL, and Foreign-Born Status	6
Assessing the Relative Progressivity of the Biden Administration's Federal Student Loan Forgiveness Proposal	6
The Insurance Value of Financial Aid	6
The Effect of Home Country Natural Disasters on the Academic Outcomes of Immigrant Students in New York City	6
Spending More on the Poor? A Comprehensive Summary of State-Specific Responses to School Finance Reforms from 1990–2014	6
The Effect of Extra School Funding on Students’ Academic Achievements under a Centralized School Financing System	5

The Academic and Behavioral Impacts of an Autism Health Insurance Mandate: Evidence from Massachusetts	5
How State Takeovers of School Districts Affect Education Finance, 1990 to 2019	5
Student Transportation in Choice-Rich Districts: Implementation Challenges and Responses	4
Teacher Incentives and Student Performance: Evidence from Brazil	4
The Impact of College Outreach on High Schoolers’ College Choices: Results from Over One Thousand Natural Experiments	4
More Than Shortages: The Unequal Distribution of Substitute Teaching	4
Private Schools and Student Achievement	4
The Effects of Financial Aid Loss on Persistence and Graduation: A Multi-Dimensional Regression Discontinuity Approach	4
Introducing the New Editorial Team	4
College Gap Time and Academic Outcomes for Women: Evidence from Missionaries	4
Stress and Cognitive Performance: Evidence from a South Korean Earthquake	4
Family Background and College Major Choice: Evidence on Major Earnings Growth	4
The Effect of Compulsory Education on Age at First Marriage and Age at First Birth: Evidence from a Difference-in-Discontinuity Design	4
Should I Stay or Should I Go (Later)? Teacher Intentions and Turnover in Low-Performing Schools and Districts Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Financial Aid Package Composition and Postsecondary Outcomes for Low-income Students: Evidence from the Spartan Advantage Program	3
The Impact of Corequisite Math on Community College Student Outcomes: Evidence from Texas	3
Hate Crimes and Black College Student Enrollment	3
Instructional Coaching Personnel and Program Scalability	3
Did Gainful Employment Regulations Result in College and Program Closures?	3
The Dynamic Effects of a Summer Learning Program on Behavioral Engagement in School	3
Your Pay or Someone Else's? Exploring Salary Dispersion, Position, and Principal Turnover	3
Situating Leadership at the Center of Education Finance and Policy	2
Second Try's a Charm: The Impact of Financial Aid Policy on Course-Retaking Behavior for Low-Income Students	2
Can Personnel Policy Improve Teacher Quality? The Role of Evaluation and the Impact of Exiting Low-Performing Teachers	2
A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Corequisite English Developmental Education: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Texas Community Colleges	2
Racial Diversity and Measuring Merit: Evidence from Boston's Exam School Admissions	2
Improving College Choice in Centralized Admissions: Experimental Evidence on the Importance of Precise Predictions	2
Prioritizing School Finance Equity during an Economic Downturn: Recommendations for State Policy Makers	2
Leveraging Experimental and Observational Evidence to Assess the Generalizability of the Effects of Early Colleges in North Carolina	2
Effect of Controlled School Autonomy on Student Achievement: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Portfolio Schools	2
The Impact of Principal Attrition and Replacement on Indicators of School Quality	2
Compensation and Staffing Challenges in Child Care: Statewide Evidence from Pandemic Relief Applications	2
The Effects of Delivering Personalized Course Recommendations at Scale on Advanced Placement Participation and Performance	2
The Effects of Campus Shootings on School Finance and Student Composition	2
Research Grants Crowding Out and Crowding In Donations to Higher Education	2
The Advanced Placement Program and Educational Inequality	1
Can Community Crime Monitoring Reduce Student Absenteeism?	1
Investigating the “Draw of Home” and Teachers’ Career Decisions	1
The Inequitable Effects of Teacher Layoffs: What We Know and Can Do	1
Improving Community College to University Transfer	1
Teachers’ Preferences for Proximity and the Implications for Staffing Schools: Evidence from Peru	1
An Examination of Test Score Trajectories Around School Switching Due to Grade Configuration	1
Social Information and Educational Investment—Nudging Remedial Math Course Participation	1
How the Engagement of High-Profile Partisan Officials Affects Education Politics, Public Opinion, and Polarization	1
Data Access and the Study of Educational Equity: Implications from a National School Boundary Data Collection Effort	1
The Adverse Effect of Decreasing State Support for Higher Education on Student Diversity	1
The Effects of School Accountability on Teachers in Public and Private Schools: Evidence from Chile	1
Paying for Free Lunch: The Impact of CEP Universal Free Meals on Revenues, Spending, and Student Health	1
Can Public Investment in Community Colleges Draw Adult Learners Away from For-Profits?	1
Academic Benefits to Full-Time Schools: Evidence from Fortaleza	1

An Empirical Analysis of Racial Segregation in Higher Education	1
Do College Applicants Respond to Changes in Sticker Prices Even When They Don't Matter?	1
A Descriptive Analysis of Cream Skimming and Pushout in Choice versus Traditional Public Schools	1
Exploring the Potential of Outcomes-Based Contracting: Findings from Initial Implementations	1
Racial Differences in Student Access to High-Quality Teachers	1
Experimental Evidence of the Impact of Re-Enrollment Campaigns on Long-Term Academic Outcomes	1
School-Based Health Care and Absenteeism: Evidence from Telemedicine	1