Helen Ladd
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- PhD Economics University of Maryland, College Park
- Masters Economics University of Maryland, College Park
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Helen F. Ladd is an education economist who currently works as the Susan B. King Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Economics at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy. In recognition of her research on the economics of education, she has been elected to the National Academy for Education and the National Academy of Sciences.
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Published Works
- Teacher-Student Matching and the Assessment of Teacher Effectiveness (2006) (890)
- Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement: Longitudinal Analysis with Student Fixed Effects. (2007) (762)
- Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement in High School: A Cross-Subject Analysis with Student Fixed Effects (2007) (664)
- Holding Schools Accountable: Performance-Based Reform in Education. (1996) (659)
- Problems with the Use of Student Test Scores to Evaluate Teachers. EPI Briefing Paper #278. (2010) (515)
- Who teaches whom? Race and the distribution of novice teachers (2005) (512)
- The Impacts of Charter Schools on Student Achievement: Evidence from North Carolina (2004) (509)
- How and Why Do Teacher Credentials Matter for Student Achievement? (2007) (404)
- Evidence on Discrimination in Mortgage Lending (1998) (383)
- School choice, racial segregation, and test-score gaps: Evidence from North Carolina's charter school program (2007) (374)
- School Vouchers: A Critical View (2002) (344)
- Would Higher Salaries Keep Teachers in High-Poverty Schools? Evidence from a Policy Intervention in North Carolina (2006) (336)
- When Schools Compete: A Cautionary Tale (2000) (329)
- Population Growth, Density and the Costs of Providing Public Services (1992) (325)
- High Poverty Schools and the Distribution of Teachers and Principals. Sanford Working Paper Series. SAN06-08. (2006) (316)
- America's Ailing Cities: Fiscal Health and the Design of Urban Policy (1989) (285)
- Teachers’ Perceptions of Their Working Conditions (2011) (269)
- Do school accountability systems make it more difficult for low-performing schools to attract and retain high-quality teachers? (2004) (255)
- Implementing value-added measures of school effectiveness: getting the incentives right (2002) (254)
- Education and Poverty: Confronting the Evidence (2012) (238)
- The Dallas School Accountability and Incentive Program: An Evaluation of its Impacts on Student Outcomes (1996) (236)
- Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy (2008) (207)
- Mimicking of Local Tax Burdens Among Neighboring Counties (1992) (199)
- The Academic Achievement Gap in Grades 3 to 8 (2006) (180)
- Elusive Equity: Education Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa (2004) (178)
- Returns to Teacher Experience: Student Achievement and Motivation in Middle School (2017) (175)
- How and Why do Teacher Credentials Matter for Student Achievement? NBER Working Paper No. 12828. (2007) (172)
- Teacher Mobility, School Segregation, and Pay-Based Policies to Level the Playing Field (2010) (163)
- Public school choice and integration evidence from Durham, North Carolina. (2008) (161)
- Intergenerational Conflict Reconsidered: County Demographic Structure and the Demand for Public Education. (2001) (156)
- School-Based Accountability in North Carolina: The Responses of School Principals (2002) (139)
- Equity and Adequacy in Education Finance: Issues and Perspectives. (1999) (137)
- Fiscal impacts of local population growth: A conceptual and empirical analysis (1994) (124)
- Urban Poverty and Educational Outcomes (2001) (120)
- LOCAL EDUCATION EXPENDITURES, FISCAL CAPACITY, AND THE COMPOSITION OF THE PROPERTY TAX BASE (1975) (120)
- Making Money Matter: Financing America's Schools. (1999) (118)
- The uneven playing field of school choice: Evidence from new zealand (2001) (118)
- The Benefits and Costs of Residential Mobility Programmes for the Poor (2002) (112)
- Institutional Change and Coproduction of Public Services: The Effect of Charter Schools on Parental Involvement (2006) (106)
- THE CASE FOR EQUALIZING AID (1994) (106)
- Does Competition Improve Teaching and Learning? Evidence from New Zealand (2003) (103)
- Status versus Growth: The Distributional Effects of School Accountability Policies. Working Paper. (2009) (103)
- local government tax and land use policies in the united states (1998) (96)
- Are Teacher Absences Worth Worrying About in the United States (2009) (93)
- Segregation and Resegregation in North Carolina’s Public School Classrooms (2003) (90)
- STATE AID TO OFFSET FISCAL DISPARITIES ACROSS COMMUNITIES (1984) (87)
- Are Teacher Absences Worth Worrying About in the U.S.? (2007) (87)
- Federal Oversight, Local Control, and the Specter of "Resegregation" in Southern Schools (2005) (87)
- Who supports tax limitations: Evidence from massachusetts' proposition 2½ (1983) (86)
- Balancing Public and Private Resources for Basic Education: School Fees in Post-Apartheid South Africa (2003) (86)
- The Growing Segmentation of the Charter School Sector in North Carolina (2015) (83)
- The Effects of Public School Choice on Those Left Behind: Evidence from Durham, North Carolina (2009) (81)
- Teacher Labor Markets in Developed Countries (2007) (80)
- From Birth to School: Early Childhood Initiatives and Third‐Grade Outcomes in North Carolina (2014) (80)
- School Finance Litigation in the Name of Educational Equity: Its Evolution, Impact and Future (1999) (78)
- Discrimination in Mortgage Lending (1982) (75)
- Federal Housing Assistance, Residential Relocation, and Educational Opportunities: Evidence from Baltimore (1997) (74)
- Racial equity in education : how far has South Africa come? : research article (2006) (72)
- School accountability and student achievement (2007) (72)
- NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND: A DEEPLY FLAWED FEDERAL POLICY (2017) (71)
- The Hidden Costs of Teacher Turnover (2020) (71)
- Teacher Bonuses and Teacher Retention in Low-Performing Schools (2008) (71)
- School—Based Educational Accountability Systems: The Promise and the Pitfalls (2001) (70)
- PARENTAL CHOICE IN THE NETHERLANDS: GROWING CONCERNS ABOUT SEGREGATION (2010) (70)
- Impact of North Carolina's Early Childhood Programs and Policies on Educational Outcomes in Elementary School. (2017) (66)
- Spatially Targeted Economic Development Strategies: Do They Work? (1995) (66)
- Educational Goods: Values, Evidence, and Decision-Making (2018) (66)
- WHY VOTERS SUPPORT TAX LIMITATIONS: EVIDENCE FROM MASSACHUSETTS' PROPOSITION 2-1/2 (1982) (59)
- The Aftermath of Accelerating Algebra: Evidence from District Policy Initiatives (2015) (58)
- Impact of North Carolina’s Early Childhood Initiatives on Special Education Placements in Third Grade (2015) (57)
- Teacher Effects: What Do We Know? (2008) (57)
- Developmental Education in North Carolina Community Colleges (2015) (56)
- STATE TAX STRUCTURE AND MULTIPLE POLICY OBJECTIVES (1994) (56)
- Success in Community College: Do Institutions Differ? (2013) (54)
- CITY TAXES AND PROPERTY TAX BASES (1987) (53)
- Reflections on Equity, Adequacy, and Weighted Student Funding (2008) (52)
- The Aftermath of Accelerating Algebra: Evidence from a District Policy Initiative (2012) (49)
- The Money Myth: School Resources, Outcomes, and Equity (2010) (49)
- Multifaceted Aid for Low‐Income Students and College Outcomes: Evidence from North Carolina (2016) (47)
- Teachers' Perceptions of Their Working Conditions: How Predictive of Policy-Relevant Outcomes? Working Paper 33. (2009) (46)
- Weighted student funding in the Netherlands: A model for the U.S.? (2011) (45)
- Educational goods and values: A framework for decision makers (2016) (45)
- School Turnaround in North Carolina: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis. Working Paper 156. (2016) (43)
- State responses to the TRA86 revenue windfalls: A new test of the flypaper effect (1993) (42)
- Market-Based Reforms in Urban Education (2002) (42)
- Property tax revaluation and tax levy growth (1982) (38)
- Discrimination in Mortgage Lending: A Study of Three Cities.@@@Discrimination in Mortgage Lending. (1982) (37)
- Equal Credit Opportunity: Women and Mortgage Credit (1982) (37)
- Tax and expenditure limitations (1981) (37)
- Causes and consequences of the changing urban form: Introduction (1991) (35)
- Accountability pressure: Regression discontinuity estimates of how No Child Left Behind influenced student behavior (2017) (35)
- Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement in High School (2010) (35)
- AN ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF STATE LIMITATIONS ON LOCAL TAXING AND SPENDING POWERS (1978) (35)
- WHICH LEVEL OF GOVERNMENT SHOULD ASSIST THE POOR? (1982) (34)
- New destinations, new trajectories? The educational progress of Hispanic youth in North Carolina. (2012) (31)
- Presidential Address: Education and Poverty: Confronting the Evidence (2012) (30)
- The Effects of MTO on Educational Opportunities in Baltimore: Early Evidence (1998) (30)
- How and Why Do Teacher Credentials Matter for Student Achievement? Working Paper 2. Revised. (2007) (30)
- The Fiscal Externalities of Charter Schools: Evidence from North Carolina (2017) (30)
- Biased ballots? The impact of ballot structure on North Carolina elections in 1992 (1996) (28)
- Racial Equality in Education: How Far Has South Africa Come? Working Papers Series. SAN05-03. (2005) (28)
- School-Based Accountability and the Distribution of Teacher Quality Across Grades in Elementary School (2013) (27)
- Algebra for 8th Graders: Evidence on its Effects from 10 North Carolina Districts (2012) (27)
- The challenges of measuring school quality: Implications for educational equity (2013) (25)
- Teacher Quality and Minority Achievement Gaps (2004) (23)
- Property tax revaluation and tax levy growth revisited (1991) (23)
- Weighted Student Funding for Primary Schools: An Analysis of the Dutch Experience. Working Paper Series. SAN09-02. (2009) (23)
- in Developed Countries (2016) (22)
- The Dutch Experience with Weighted Student Funding: Some Lessons for the U.S. Working Papers Series. SAN09-03. (2009) (20)
- THE DETERMINANTS OF STATE ASSISTANCE TO CENTRAL CITIES (1989) (20)
- Public School Choice and Integration: Evidence from Durham, North Carolina (2008) (20)
- School Segregation under Color-Blind Jurisprudence: The Case of North Carolina. Working Papers Series. SAN08-02. (2008) (19)
- The Challenges of Measuring School Quality (2013) (19)
- THE STATE AID DECISION: CHANGES IN STATE AID TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, 1982-87 (1991) (16)
- School Segregation at the Classroom Level in a Southern ‘New Destination’ State (2020) (16)
- Education Inspectorate Systems in New Zealand and the Netherlands (2010) (15)
- Chapter 7 – ARE PROPERTY TAXES CAPITALIZED INTO HOUSE VALUES?1 (1983) (15)
- The Dutch Experience with Weighted Student Funding (2010) (15)
- Results from the tar heel state (2005) (14)
- Property Taxes and House Values : The Theory and Estimation of Interjurisdictional Tax Capitalization (1988) (14)
- Does parental choice foster segregated schools? Insights from the Netherlands (2011) (14)
- Long-term effects of early childhood programs through eighth grade: Do the effects fade out or grow? (2020) (13)
- State Assistance to Local Governments: Changes during the 1980s (1990) (12)
- School Segregation under Color-Blind Jurisprudence: The Case of North Carolina. Working Paper 16. (2008) (12)
- STATE-WIDE TAXATION OF COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY FOR EDUCATION (1976) (12)
- School Based Accountability and the Distribution of Teacher Quality among Grades in Elementary Schools. Working Paper 75. (2012) (11)
- The Challenge of Fiscal Disparities for State and Local Governments: The Selected Essays of Helen F. Ladd (1999) (11)
- Gender Differences in the Impact of North Carolina’s Early Care and Education Initiatives on Student Outcomes in Elementary School (2020) (10)
- Public Universities, Equal Opportunity, and the Legacy of Jim Crow: Evidence from North Carolina (2015) (10)
- Parental preferences for charter schools in North Carolina: Implications for racial segregation and isolation (2020) (8)
- Education and Poverty: Confronting the Evidence. Working Papers Series. SAN11-01. (2011) (8)
- Results from the Tar Heel State: Older Students Did Better when in Regular Public Schools. (2005) (8)
- Accountability Pressure and Non-Achievement Student Behaviors (2015) (8)
- School segregation in the era of immigration, school choice and color-blind jurisprudence - the case of North Carolina (2019) (8)
- The Aftermath of Accelerating Algebra (2015) (7)
- Do Teacher Assistants Improve Student Outcomes? Evidence From School Funding Cutbacks in North Carolina (2021) (7)
- Path to the Principalship and Value Added: A Cross-State Comparison of Elementary and Middle School Principals. Working Paper No. 213-0119-1. (2019) (7)
- School Segregation in the Era of Color-Blind Jurisprudence and School Choice (2021) (7)
- Raising the Bar for College Admission: North Carolina's Increase in Minimum Math Course Requirements (2016) (7)
- Self-governing schools, parental choice, and the need to protect the public interest (2017) (6)
- Self-governing schools and accountability in New Zealand (2001) (6)
- Undergraduate and doctoral education in public policy: What? Why? Why not? Whereto? (2008) (6)
- Proposition 2 1/2: Explaining the Vote. (1981) (6)
- Public sector management in New Zealand: Lessons and challenges; . Obedient servants? Management freedoms and accountabilities in the New Zealand public sector (2005) (5)
- A Level Playing Field? What We Can Learn from the New Zealand School Reform. (2000) (5)
- Choosing Charter Schools in North Carolina: What Do Parents Value? (2017) (5)
- Catalysts for Learning. Recognition and Reward Programs in the Public Schools. (1996) (5)
- NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 (1987) (5)
- Commemorating Richard Musgrave (1910-2007) (2008) (5)
- Education and Tax Limitations: Evidence from Massachusetts. (1985) (5)
- HOW CHARTER SCHOOLS THREATEN THE PUBLIC INTEREST (2019) (5)
- School Policies and the Black-White Test Score Gap. Working Paper Series. SAN08-03. (2008) (5)
- Success in Community College: Do Institutions Differ? (2013) (4)
- The Tomorrow ’ s Schools Reforms : An American Perspective (2001) (4)
- Education Equity in an International Context (2007) (4)
- Education and Tax Limitations: Evidence from Massachusetts' Proposition 2 1/2. (1982) (4)
- Teacher Quality and Minority Achievement Gaps. Working Paper Series. SAN04-04. (2004) (4)
- Accountability Pressure: Regression Discontinuity Estimates of How NCLB Affects Student Behavior (2016) (4)
- The Two New Yorks: State-City Relations in the Changing Federal System (1989) (4)
- Teaching Assistants and Nonteaching Staff: Do They Improve Student Outcomes? Working Paper 169. (2016) (4)
- Charter Schools in North Carolina 1 (2017) (3)
- Statewide Taxation of Nonresidential Property for Education. (1995) (3)
- The Hidden Costs of Teacher Turnover. Working Paper No. 203-0918-1. (2018) (2)
- School District Responses to Fiscal Constraints (1996) (2)
- Self-Governing Schools, Parental Choice, and the Public Interest (2018) (2)
- Good education policy making: Data-informed but values-driven (2018) (2)
- The economics of school accountability (2010) (2)
- Teacher Labor Markets, Segregation and Salary-Based Policies to Combat Inequity across Schools. (2010) (2)
- Accountability Pressure and Non-Achievement Student Behaviors. Working Paper 122. (2015) (2)
- City property taxes: the effects of economic change and competitive pressures (1987) (1)
- North Carolina Math/Science/Special Education (MSSE) $1,800 Teacher Bonus Program: An Initial Evaluation. Policy Matters. (2005) (1)
- Eminent Economists II: Confessions of a Wellesley FEM (2014) (1)
- Success in Community College: Do Institutions Differ? Working Paper 74. (2012) (1)
- Educational Goods: Values, Evidence, and Decision‐Making—A Summary (2020) (1)
- Learning from the New Zealand experiment (2001) (1)
- Are Some Neighborhoods More Equal than Others (1993) (1)
- EXPERIMENTATION FALLS SHORT AS A JUSTIFICATION FOR MORE CHARTER SCHOOLS (2019) (1)
- Virtual Success: Examining the Effectiveness of the North Carolina Virtual Public School A Master's Project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Public Policy in the Sanford School at Duke University (2012) (0)
- Effects of teacher quality on student achievement / Impacto de la calidad del profesorado en el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes / Impacte de la qualitat del professorat en el rendiment acadèmic dels estudiants (2017) (0)
- Health & Education Intersections: Health Barriers to Academic Achievement and Potential Policy Solutions (2015) (0)
- School Segregation at the Classroom Level in a Southern ‘New Destination’ State (2021) (0)
- Tax Limitations in Massachusetts. (1982) (0)
- TAX LIMITATION AND EDUCATIONAL FINANCE: COMMENTS (1979) (0)
- 3 Teacher Quality : Broadening and Deepening the Debate Teacher Effects : What Do We Know ? (2008) (0)
- Charter schools and equity: The power of accountability (2021) (0)
- Part 2. Decision Making (2019) (0)
- Editors' Summary (2011) (0)
- Values in Education: Implications for Policy and Practice (2018) (0)
- Comment (2002) (0)
- Equity in higher education (2004) (0)
- UNDERGRADUATE AND DOCTORAL EDUCATION IN PUBLIC POLICY (2016) (0)
- Policy as Resource Allocation: Commentary (2020) (0)
- Introduction to symposium on managing local development (1990) (0)
- Mayors and Money: Fiscal Policy in New York and Chicago, by Ester R. Fuchs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1922, 361 pp. Price: $47.50 cloth, $16.95 paper (1993) (0)
- Taxation and the Poor (1984) (0)
- Part 1. Values (2019) (0)
- Surprising Success Among Hispanic students (2006) (0)
- STATE LIMITATIONS ON LOCAL TAXING AND SPENDING POWERS: A RESPONSE (1978) (0)
- Services from public capital : the outlook for Boston's physical infrastructure (1983) (0)
- White Advantage in Teacher Assignment (2021) (0)
- The price of federalism by Paul E. Peterson. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1995, 231 pp., $36.95 cloth, $15.95 paper (1996) (0)
- Explaining the Impressive Academic Performance of Disadvantaged Pupils in London (2016) (0)
- Equity- oriented accountability for charter schools: Lessons from Massachusetts (2021) (0)
- MTO: A residential relocation demonstration program in the United States (1999) (0)
- Educational success in two Inner London boroughs: Lessons for the U.S. (2016) (0)
- American Economic Association Evidence on Discrimination in Mortgage Lending (2007) (0)
- ***** PRELIMINARY DRAFT. PLEASE DO NOT CITE WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE AUTHORS. COMMENTS WELCOME. ***** School Personnel and Student Outcomes: The Role of Support Staff In North Carolina’s Elementary and Middle Schools (2016) (0)
- Proposition 2 1/2: Variations in Individual Preferences and Expectations across Communities. (1982) (0)
- Population Health Management, Data and Technology (2016) (0)
- Coursework and Instructional Time (2017) (0)
- ' Defining Racial Discrimination : Prejudice Over Profit ? (2007) (0)
- Nclb: Response To Jacob (2017) (0)
- 1 – What Is Property Tax Capitalization? (1988) (0)
- “School Vouchers: Friend or Foe?” (2017) (0)
- Teacher mobility responses to wage changes: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment (2010) (0)
- A CONVERSATION ON SCHOOL VOUCHERS (2003) (0)
- International Perspectives on School Choice (2019) (0)
- Big City Finances in the New Era of Fiscal Federalism (2020) (0)
- Standards-based Education Reform Has a More than 20- Year History. a Standards-based Vision Was Enacted in National Academy of Education Working Group on Standards, Assessments, and Accountability (0)
- REFORMS IN URBk-N EDUCATION (2012) (0)
- Educational Goods Reconsidered: A Response (2020) (0)
- REFORMS IN URBk-N EDUCATION (2012) (0)
- Multifaceted Aid for Low-Income Students and College Outcomes: Evidence from North Carolina (2016) (0)
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