Lori L Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 5807897 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lori L Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lori L |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR L L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2865-8598 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Adequacy of Educational Cost Functions: Lessons From Texas
Adequacy studies based on cost functions have come under attack. A recent Texas court battle featured two cost function studies that reached markedly different conclusions about the additional funding needed to meet designated performance goals. Some critics see such disparities as indicators of a general futility in the whole education cost function enterprise. We argue that the more appropriate conclusion is that it is critically important to d…
The Relative Efficiency of Charter Schools
This analysis compares the technical efficiency of charter school primary and secondary campuses with that of comparable campuses in traditional Texas school districts. Charter schools are hybrids—publicly funded, but not required to meet all the state regulations releant for traditional schools. Student performance is measured using value added on standardized tests in reading and mathematics, and efficiency is measured using the input distance …
On the Determinants of School District Efficiency: Competition and Monitoring
Budget-Constrained Frontier Measures of Fiscal Equality and Efficiency in Schooling
Equality and efficiency are key issues in educational reform. Here the authors analyze the efficiency and equality consequences of various school finance reforms using a cost-indirect output distance function. This function readily models multiple-output production under conditions of budgetary constraint, and provides a natural measure of performance that is closely related to Farrell-type measures of efficiency. The analysis suggests that despi…
Aggregation and the Estimated Effects of School Resources
This paper attempts to reconcile the contradictory findings in the debate over school resources and school effectiveness by highlighting the role of aggregation in the presence of omitted variables bias. While data aggregation for well-specified linear models yields unbiased parameter estimates, aggregation alters the magnitude of any omitted variables bias. In general, the theoretical impact of aggregation is ambiguous. In a very relevant specia…
Allocative Inefficiency and Local Government
Allocative Inefficiency and Local Government
Aggregation and the Estimated Effects of School Resources
This paper attempts to reconcile the contradictory findings in the debate over school resources and school effectiveness by highlighting the role of aggregation in the presence of omitted variables bias. While data aggregation for well-specified linear models yields unbiased parameter estimates, aggregation alters the magnitude of any omitted variables bias. In general, the theoretical impact of aggregation is ambiguous. In a very relevant specia…
Budget-Constrained Frontier Measures of Fiscal Equality and Efficiency in Schooling
Equality and efficiency are key issues in educational reform. Here the authors analyze the efficiency and equality consequences of various school finance reforms using a cost-indirect output distance function. This function readily models multiple-output production under conditions of budgetary constraint, and provides a natural measure of performance that is closely related to Farrell-type measures of efficiency. The analysis suggests that despi…
On the Determinants of School District Efficiency: Competition and Monitoring
The Relative Efficiency of Charter Schools
This analysis compares the technical efficiency of charter school primary and secondary campuses with that of comparable campuses in traditional Texas school districts. Charter schools are hybrids—publicly funded, but not required to meet all the state regulations releant for traditional schools. Student performance is measured using value added on standardized tests in reading and mathematics, and efficiency is measured using the input distance …
The Adequacy of Educational Cost Functions: Lessons From Texas
Adequacy studies based on cost functions have come under attack. A recent Texas court battle featured two cost function studies that reached markedly different conclusions about the additional funding needed to meet designated performance goals. Some critics see such disparities as indicators of a general futility in the whole education cost function enterprise. We argue that the more appropriate conclusion is that it is critically important to d…
Economics (5 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (5 works) · School Choice and Performance (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Econometrics (3 works) · Function (biology (3 works) · Inefficiency (3 works) · Microeconomics (3 works) · Public economics (3 works) · Allocative efficiency (2 works)