This comprehensive Encyclopedia covers the historical perspective on the development of education economics and finance as a field of study.

Table of Contents

• Editorial Board
• Reader's Guide
• About the Editors
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• Ability-to-Pay and Benefit Principles
• Access to Education
• Accountability, Standards-Based
• Accountability, Types of
• Accreditation
• Achievement Gap
• Adequacy
• Adequacy: Cost Function Approach
• Adequacy: Evidence-Based Approach
• Adequacy: Professional Judgment Approach
• Adequacy: Successful School District Approach
• Adequate Yearly Progress
• Administrative Spending
• Adult Education
• Age-Earnings Profile
• Agency Theory
• Allocative Efficiency
• American Association of School Administrators
• Association for Education Finance and Policy
• Auxiliary Services
• Baumol's Cost Disease
• Behavioral Economics
• Benefits of Higher Education
• Benefits of Primary and Secondary Education
• Bilingual Education
• Block Grants
• Bonds in School Financing
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Budgeting Approaches
• Capacity Building of Organizations
• Capital Budget
• Capital Financing for Education
• Capitalist Economy
• Categorical Grants
• Central Office, Role and Costs of
• Centralization Versus Decentralization
• Charter Management Organizations
• Charter Schools
• College Choice
• College Completion
• College Dropout
• College Enrollment
• College Rankings
• College Savings Plan Mechanisms
• College Selectivity
• Common Core State Standards
• Community Colleges Finance
• Comparative Wage Index
• Compound Annual Growth Rate
• Comprehensive School Reform
• Compulsory Schooling Laws
• Continuing Education
• Contracting for Services
• Cost Accounting
• Cost of Education
• Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
• Credential Effect
• Cultural Capital
• Data Envelopment Analysis
• Demand for Education
• Department of Defense Schools
• Deregulation
• Desegregation
• Difference-in-Differences
• Digital Divide
• Discount Rate
• Distance Learning
• District Power Equalizing
• District Size
• Dropout Rates
• Dual Enrollment
• Dual Labor Markets
• Due Process
• Early Childhood Education
• Econometric Methods for Research in Education
• Economic Cost
• Economic Development and Education
• Economic Efficiency
• Economics of Education
• Economies of Scale
• Education and Civic Engagement
• Education and Crime
• Education Finance
• Education Management Organizations
• Education Production Functions and Productivity
• Education Spending
• Education Technology
• Educational Equity
• Educational Innovation
• Educational Vouchers
• Effect Size
• Elasticity
• Elementary and Secondary Education Act
• Enrollment Counts
• Enrollment Management in Higher Education
• Equalization Models
• Evolution in Authority Over U.S. Schools
• Expenditures and Revenues, Current Trends of
• Extended Day
• External Social Benefits and Costs
• Factor Prices
• Faculty in American Higher Education
• Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
• Federal Perkins Loan Program
• Federal Work-Study Program
• Financial Literacy and Cognitive Skills
• Fiscal Disparity
• Fiscal Environment
• Fiscal Neutrality
• Fixed-Effects Models
• Foregone Earnings
• For-Profit Higher Education
• Fund Accounting
• Gainful Employment
• General Educational Development (GED®)
• General Obligation Bonds
• GI Bill
• Globalization
• Governmental Accounting Standards Board
• Guaranteed Tax Base
• Hedonic Wage Models
• Higher Education Finance
• Homeschooling
• Horizontal Equity
• Human Capital
• Income Inequality and Educational Inequality
• Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
• Infrastructure Financing and Student Achievement
• Instrumental Variables
• Intergovernmental Fiscal Relationships
• Internal Rate of Return
• International Assessments
• International Datasets in Education
• International Organizations
• Investing in Innovation Fund (i3)
• Job Training
• Labor Market Rate of Return to Education in Developing Countries
• Licensure and Certification
• Local Control
• Lotteries for School Funding
• Lotteries in School Admissions
• Market Signaling
• Markets, Theory of
• Measurement Error
• Median Voter Model
• Moral Hazard
• Nation at Risk, A
• National Assessment of Educational Progress
• National Board Certification for Teachers
• National Center for Education Statistics
• National Datasets in Education
• National Science Foundation
• Neighborhood Effects: Values of Housing and Schools
• New Institutional Economics
• No Child Left Behind Act
• Nonwage Benefits
• Omitted Variable Bias
• Online Learning
• Opportunity Costs
• Opportunity to Learn
• Ordinary Least Squares
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• Parcel Tax
• Parental Involvement
• Partial and General Equilibrium
• Pay for Performance
• Peer Effects
• Pell Grants
• Performance Evaluation Systems
• Permanent Income
• Philanthropic Foundations in Education
• Policy Analysis in Education
• Portfolio Districts
• Present Value of Earnings
• Price Discrimination
• Principal-Agent Problem
• Private Contributions to Schools
• Private Fundraising in Postsecondary Education
• Private School Associations
• Privatization and Marketization
• Professional Development
• Program Budgeting
• Progressive Tax and Regressive Tax
• Propensity Score Matching
• Property Taxes
• Public Choice Economics
• Public Good
• Public-Private Partnerships in Education
• Pupil Weights
• Quantile Regression
• Quasi-Experimental Methods
• Race Earnings Differentials
• Race to the Top
• Randomized Control Trials
• Reduction in Force
• Regression-Discontinuity Design
• Reliability
• Risk Factors, Students
• Salary Schedule
• San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
• SAT
• School Boards
• School Boards, School Districts, and Collective Bargaining
• School District Budgets
• School District Cash Flow
• School District Wealth
• School Finance Equity Statistics
• School Finance Litigation
• School Quality and Earnings
• School Report Cards
• School Size
• School-Based Management
• Schools, Private
• Schools, Religious
• Selection Bias
• Serrano v. Priest
• Service Consolidation
• Social Capital
• Socioeconomic Status and Education
• Special Education Finance
• Spillover Effects
• Stafford Loans
• State Education Agencies
• State Education Codes
• Student Financial Aid
• Student Incentives
• Student Loans
• Student Mobility
• Supplemental Educational Services
• Tax Burden
• Tax Elasticity
• Tax Incidence
• Tax Limits
• Tax Yield
• Teacher Autonomy
• Teacher Compensation
• Teacher Effectiveness
• Teacher Evaluation
• Teacher Experience
• Teacher Intelligence
• Teacher Pensions
• Teacher Performance Assessment
• Teacher Supply
• Teacher Training and Preparation
• Teacher Value-Added Measures
• Teachers’ Unions and Collective Bargaining
• Technical Efficiency
• Theory of the Firm
• Tiebout Sorting
• Title I
• Tracking in Education
• Tragedy of the Commons
• Transaction Cost Economics
• Tuition and Fees, Higher Education
• Tuition and Fees, K-12 Private Schools
• Tuition Tax Credits
• Unfunded Mandates
• University Endowments
• U.S. Department of Education
• Validity
• Vertical Equity
• Vocational Education
• Weighted Student Funding
• Appendix A: Resource Guide
• Appendix B: Chronology
• Appendix C: Glossary