Education-Finance Reform and the Distribution of Education Resources
利用1971至1996年间美国16个州法院强制改革学校财政的案例，发现改革使州内生均支出不平等降低19%至34%，主要通过提高最贫困地区支出实现，同时增加了教育总支出。
Between 1971 and 1996 opponents of local funding for public schools successfully challenged the constitutionality of school-finance systems in sixteen states. Using the variation across states in the timing of these cases the authors investigate the impact of reform on the distribution of school resources. Their results suggest that court-ordered finance reform reduced within-state inequality in spending by 19 to 34 percent. Successful litigation reduced inequality by raising spending in the poorest districts while leaving spending in the richest districts unchanged, thereby increasing aggregate spending on education. Reform led states to fund additional spending through higher state taxes. Copyright 1998 by American Economic Association.