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SUBMITTER: Rauscher E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10275351 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
AJS; American journal of sociology 20220701 1
The equity-efficiency trade-off and cumulative return theories predict larger returns to school spending in areas with higher previous investment in children. Equity-not efficiency-is therefore used to justify progressive school funding: spending more in communities with fewer financial resources. Yet it remains unclear how returns to school spending vary across areas by previous investment. Using county-level panel data for 2009-18 from the Stanford Education Data Archive, the Census Finance Su ...[more]