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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Advanced Placement and Initial College Enrollment: Evidence from an Experiment	33
Gifted & Talented Programs and Racial Segregation	32
How Well Do Professional Reference Ratings Predict Teacher Performance?	29
Balancing State and Local Power over School Districts’ Finances	18
Labor Market Trajectories for Community College Graduates: How Returns to Certificates and Associate's Degrees Evolve Over Time	17
Out of the Gate, But Not Necessarily Teaching: A Descriptive Portrait of Early Career Earnings for Those Who Are Credentialed to Teach	16
The Impact of Teacher Labor Market Reforms on Student Achievement: Evidence from Michigan	16
Experimental Estimates of College Coaching on Postsecondary Reenrollment	11
The Effect of Bonuses on Teacher Retention and Student Learning in Rural Schools: A Story of Spillovers	10
Sibling Gender Effects on Test Scores	9
The External Validity of College Remediation Effects: Caveats about Compliers in Fuzzy-Discontinuity Designs	8
Comprehensive Support and Student Success: Can Out of School Time Make a Difference?	8
Can Technology Transform Communication Between Schools, Teachers, and Parents? Evidence from a Randomized Field Trial	7
State-Level Common Application Policies and College Enrollment	7
Pandemic-Era School Staff Shortages: Evidence from Unfilled Position Data in Illinois	7
A Classroom Observer Like Me: The Effects of Race-Congruence and Gender-Congruence between Teachers and Raters on Observation Scores	7
COVID-19 Crisis, Economic Hardships, and Schooling Outcomes	6
Assessing the Relative Progressivity of the Biden Administration's Federal Student Loan Forgiveness Proposal	6
The Impact of School Desegregation on White Individuals' Racial Attitudes and Politics in Adulthood	6
Spending More on the Poor? A Comprehensive Summary of State-Specific Responses to School Finance Reforms from 1990–2014	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
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	5
In-State Tuition Policies and the College Decisions of Undocumented Students: Evidence from Colorado	5
Family Background and College Major Choice: Evidence on Major Earnings Growth	4

Student Transportation in Choice-Rich Districts: Implementation Challenges and Responses	4
The Effect of Extra School Funding on Students’ Academic Achievements under a Centralized School Financing System	4
Stress and Cognitive Performance: Evidence from a South Korean Earthquake	4
Private Schools and Student Achievement	4
The Academic and Behavioral Impacts of an Autism Health Insurance Mandate: Evidence from Massachusetts	4
College Gap Time and Academic Outcomes for Women: Evidence from Missionaries	4
The Effects of Financial Aid Loss on Persistence and Graduation: A Multi-Dimensional Regression Discontinuity Approach	4
How State Takeovers of School Districts Affect Education Finance, 1990 to 2019	4
Teacher Incentives and Student Performance: Evidence from Brazil	4
The Dynamic Effects of a Summer Learning Program on Behavioral Engagement in School	3
Introducing the New Editorial Team	3
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
The Impact of College Outreach on High Schoolers’ College Choices: Results from Over One Thousand Natural Experiments	3
The Effect of Compulsory Education on Age at First Marriage and Age at First Birth: Evidence from a Difference-in-Discontinuity Design	3
Did Gainful Employment Regulations Result in College and Program Closures?	3
The Impact of Corequisite Math on Community College Student Outcomes: Evidence from Texas	3
More Than Shortages: The Unequal Distribution of Substitute Teaching	3
Hate Crimes and Black College Student Enrollment	3
Financial Aid Package Composition and Postsecondary Outcomes for Low-income Students: Evidence from the Spartan Advantage Program	3
The Effects of Delivering Personalized Course Recommendations at Scale on Advanced Placement Participation and Performance	2
Instructional Coaching Personnel and Program Scalability	2
Improving College Choice in Centralized Admissions: Experimental Evidence on the Importance of Precise Predictions	2
Racial Diversity and Measuring Merit: Evidence from Boston's Exam School Admissions	2
Leveraging Experimental and Observational Evidence to Assess the Generalizability of the Effects of Early Colleges in North Carolina	2
Second Try's a Charm: The Impact of Financial Aid Policy on Course-Retaking Behavior for Low-Income Students	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
Research Grants Crowding Out and Crowding In Donations to Higher Education	2
The Effects of Campus Shootings on School Finance and Student Composition	2
Your Pay or Someone Else's? Exploring Salary Dispersion, Position, and Principal Turnover	2
Situating Leadership at the Center of Education Finance and Policy	2
Prioritizing School Finance Equity during an Economic Downturn: Recommendations for State Policy Makers	2
Can Personnel Policy Improve Teacher Quality? The Role of Evaluation and the Impact of Exiting Low-Performing Teachers	2
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
Experimental Evidence of the Impact of Re-Enrollment Campaigns on Long-Term Academic Outcomes	1
How the Engagement of High-Profile Partisan Officials Affects Education Politics, Public Opinion, and Polarization	1
A Descriptive Analysis of Cream Skimming and Pushout in Choice versus Traditional Public Schools	1
The Effects of School Accountability on Teachers in Public and Private Schools: Evidence from Chile	1
The Inequitable Effects of Teacher Layoffs: What We Know and Can Do	1
A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Corequisite English Developmental Education: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Texas Community Colleges	1
Teachers’ Preferences for Proximity and the Implications for Staffing Schools: Evidence from Peru	1
School-Based Health Care and Absenteeism: Evidence from Telemedicine	1
The Advanced Placement Program and Educational Inequality	1
Data Access and the Study of Educational Equity: Implications from a National School Boundary Data Collection Effort	1
Improving Community College to University Transfer	1
Can Community Crime Monitoring Reduce Student Absenteeism?	1
Effect of Controlled School Autonomy on Student Achievement: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Portfolio Schools	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

Academic Benefits to Full-Time Schools: Evidence from Fortaleza	1
Do College Applicants Respond to Changes in Sticker Prices Even When They Don't Matter?	1
Investigating the “Draw of Home” and Teachers’ Career Decisions	1
Racial Differences in Student Access to High-Quality Teachers	1
An Empirical Analysis of Racial Segregation in Higher Education	1