کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5067780 1476876 2017 18 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Political-economic determinants of education reform: Evidence on interest groups and student outcomes
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
تعیین کننده های سیاسی و اقتصادی اصلاحات آموزشی: شواهد بر گروه های علاقه مند و نتایج دانش آموزان
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
چکیده انگلیسی


- We construct a novel dataset of quality and access education reforms.
- Teachers' unions affect access reforms positively and quality reforms negatively.
- Evidence of “influence motive”: teacher contributions affect only teacher reforms.
- Worsening student performance yields more student quality reforms.
- Improving student performance increases school quality reforms.

Education reforms come in two general types: access and quality reforms. Access reforms provide more educational opportunities, while quality reforms improve educational effectiveness. This paper investigates empirically the factors affecting the enactment of these two kinds of reforms in public primary and secondary education. By using a novel dataset of U.S. state legislation from 2008 to 2013, we find that both access and quality reforms are more likely in times of bad educational outcomes. Moreover, this is the first study documenting that teachers' union strength correlates positively with access reforms and negatively with quality reforms. Our results also shed light on the way teachers' unions promote their political interests: both lobbying and contributions are effective at opposing undesired reforms, but contributions have an extra effect of influencing the enactment of desired reforms.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: European Journal of Political Economy - Volume 48, June 2017, Pages 144-161
نویسندگان
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