Student Performance and Educational Resources: A Spatial Econometric Examination

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Title:	Student Performance and Educational Resources: A Spatial Econometric Examination
Author:	Plenzler, Nicole
Description:	We examine the relationship between fourth grade student proficiency scores, various educational spending categories, student and teacher characteristics as well as population socioeconomic characteristics using a building-level database containing 1,965 Ohio elementary schools. While most economic studies of the relationship between student performance and educational resources show a weak link, we find a strong link between student performance and resources. We argue that use of the appropriate spatial scale is an overlooked issue in previous economic studies. Furthermore, we provide an alternative method of capturing variation over geographical space through the estimation of locally linear models. By estimating a separate model for each individual building, we see that the global estimates provided by previous estimation methodologies may not be provide valid inferences. The locally linear estimates and inferences suggest that location-special forces exist in the relationship between resources and student performance.
Permanent Link:	http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1083353063 http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/19400
Date:	2004

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