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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Balancing State and Local Power over School Districts’ Finances	39
Gifted & Talented Programs and Racial Segregation	36
Advanced Placement and Initial College Enrollment: Evidence from an Experiment	35
Labor Market Trajectories for Community College Graduates: How Returns to Certificates and Associate's Degrees Evolve Over Time	23
How Well Do Professional Reference Ratings Predict Teacher Performance?	21
The Impact of Teacher Labor Market Reforms on Student Achievement: Evidence from Michigan	19
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	16
Out of the Gate, But Not Necessarily Teaching: A Descriptive Portrait of Early Career Earnings for Those Who Are Credentialed to Teach	13
The External Validity of College Remediation Effects: Caveats about Compliers in Fuzzy-Discontinuity Designs	10
Comprehensive Support and Student Success: Can Out of School Time Make a Difference?	10
Sibling Gender Effects on Test Scores	9
Pandemic-Era School Staff Shortages: Evidence from Unfilled Position Data in Illinois	9
Can Technology Transform Communication Between Schools, Teachers, and Parents? Evidence from a Randomized Field Trial	9
State-Level Common Application Policies and College Enrollment	8
A Classroom Observer Like Me: The Effects of Race-Congruence and Gender-Congruence between Teachers and Raters on Observation Scores	8
Spending More on the Poor? A Comprehensive Summary of State-Specific Responses to School Finance Reforms from 1990–2014	7
The Impact of School Desegregation on White Individuals' Racial Attitudes and Politics in Adulthood	7
How Predictive of Teacher Retention Are Ratings of Applicants from Professional References?	7
COVID-19 Crisis, Economic Hardships, and Schooling Outcomes	7
The Insurance Value of Financial Aid	7
Does Developmental Education Reform Help or Hinder the Success of Language Minority Students? An Exploration by Language Minority, ESOL, and Foreign-Born Status	7
The Effect of Home Country Natural Disasters on the Academic Outcomes of Immigrant Students in New York City	6
In-State Tuition Policies and the College Decisions of Undocumented Students: Evidence from Colorado	6
How State Takeovers of School Districts Affect Education Finance, 1990 to 2019	6

Assessing the Relative Progressivity of the Biden Administration's Federal Student Loan Forgiveness Proposal	6
The Academic and Behavioral Impacts of an Autism Health Insurance Mandate: Evidence from Massachusetts	6
Family Background and College Major Choice: Evidence on Major Earnings Growth	5
Teacher Incentives and Student Performance: Evidence from Brazil	5
The Effects of Financial Aid Loss on Persistence and Graduation: A Multi-Dimensional Regression Discontinuity Approach	5
Private Schools and Student Achievement	5
Student Transportation in Choice-Rich Districts: Implementation Challenges and Responses	5
The Effect of Extra School Funding on Students’ Academic Achievements under a Centralized School Financing System	5
Stress and Cognitive Performance: Evidence from a South Korean Earthquake	4
The Effect of Compulsory Education on Age at First Marriage and Age at First Birth: Evidence from a Difference-in-Discontinuity Design	4
College Gap Time and Academic Outcomes for Women: Evidence from Missionaries	4
More Than Shortages: The Unequal Distribution of Substitute Teaching	4
Introducing the New Editorial Team	4
The Dynamic Effects of a Summer Learning Program on Behavioral Engagement in School	4
The Impact of College Outreach on High Schoolers’ College Choices: Results from Over One Thousand Natural Experiments	4
Your Pay or Someone Else's? Exploring Salary Dispersion, Position, and Principal Turnover	3
Compensation and Staffing Challenges in Child Care: Statewide Evidence from Pandemic Relief Applications	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
Second Try's a Charm: The Impact of Financial Aid Policy on Course-Retaking Behavior for Low-Income Students	3
The Impact of Principal Attrition and Replacement on Indicators of School Quality	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
Situating Leadership at the Center of Education Finance and Policy	3
Improving College Choice in Centralized Admissions: Experimental Evidence on the Importance of Precise Predictions	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
Editorial Announcement	2
The Effects of Delivering Personalized Course Recommendations at Scale on Advanced Placement Participation and Performance	2
Can Personnel Policy Improve Teacher Quality? The Role of Evaluation and the Impact of Exiting Low-Performing Teachers	2
Effect of Controlled School Autonomy on Student Achievement: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Portfolio Schools	2
Experimental Evidence of the Impact of Re-Enrollment Campaigns on Long-Term Academic Outcomes	2
School-Based Health Care and Absenteeism: Evidence from Telemedicine	2
Instructional Coaching Personnel and Program Scalability	2
Prioritizing School Finance Equity during an Economic Downturn: Recommendations for State Policy Makers	2
A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Corequisite English Developmental Education: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Texas Community Colleges	2
Paying for Free Lunch: The Impact of CEP Universal Free Meals on Revenues, Spending, and Student Health	2
An Examination of Test Score Trajectories Around School Switching Due to Grade Configuration	2
The Effects of Campus Shootings on School Finance and Student Composition	2
Racial Diversity and Measuring Merit: Evidence from Boston's Exam School Admissions	2
Research Grants Crowding Out and Crowding In Donations to Higher Education	2
Leveraging Experimental and Observational Evidence to Assess the Generalizability of the Effects of Early Colleges in North Carolina	2
Teachers’ Preferences for Proximity and the Implications for Staffing Schools: Evidence from Peru	2
Academic Benefits to Full-Time Schools: Evidence from Fortaleza	2
Crossing the Finish Line but Losing the Race? Socioeconomic Inequalities in the Labor Market Trajectories of Community College Graduates	1
Making the (Letter) Grade: The Incentive Effects of Mandatory Pass/Fail Courses	1
Do College Applicants Respond to Changes in Sticker Prices Even When They Don't Matter?	1
How the Engagement of High-Profile Partisan Officials Affects Education Politics, Public Opinion, and Polarization	1
Social Information and Educational Investment—Nudging Remedial Math Course Participation	1
The Adverse Effect of Decreasing State Support for Higher Education on Student Diversity	1
An Empirical Analysis of Racial Segregation in Higher Education	1

The Inequitable Effects of Teacher Layoffs: What We Know and Can Do	1
Finding the Right Track: Payoffs to Vocational Education Programs with Workplace Learning	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
Variations in Local Funding Sources for Community Colleges and Their Relationship to Institutional Characteristics	1
Exploring the Potential of Outcomes-Based Contracting: Findings from Initial Implementations	1
Racial Differences in Student Access to High-Quality Teachers	1
Investigating the “Draw of Home” and Teachers’ Career Decisions	1
Another One Rides the Bus: The Impact of School Transportation on Student Outcomes in Michigan	1
Data Access and the Study of Educational Equity: Implications from a National School Boundary Data Collection Effort	1
Let's Tweet Again? Social Networks and Literature Achievement in High School Students	1
Can Community Crime Monitoring Reduce Student Absenteeism?	1
The Advanced Placement Program and Educational Inequality	1
Can Public Investment in Community Colleges Draw Adult Learners away from For-Profits?	1
Improving Community College to University Transfer	1