K-12 education in the U.S. economy
Subtitle: its impact on economic development, earnings, and housing values
By: Thomas L. Hungerford and Robert W. Wassmer.
Contributors: Wassmer, Robert W.; National Education Association of the United States.
Series: NEA research working paper
Publisher: National Education Association
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 52
Subjects: Education -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Notes: "April 2004."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-52).
Table of contents: title: Executive summary; title: Introduction; title: Current issues affecting the delivery of quality K-12 public education; title: What follows; title: The public elementary and secondary educational sector; title: K-12 revenue sources and spending levels; title: K-12 educational inputs and outputs; title: Public support of K-12 education; title: Summary; title: Public education, the economy, and "spillovers"; title: Returns gained from K-12 education; title: Spillovers of K-12 education; title: Economic growth; title: Quality of life; title: Decision-making and choice; title: Social capital; title: Implications for public provision of K-12 education; title: Summary and conclusion; title: Education's contribution to economic development; title: Economic development and K-12 public education; title: K-12 public education, the balanced government budget, and economic development; title: Necessary qualities of empirical studies to discern economic development impacts; title: Results of previous "quality" empirical studies; title: Summary and implications; title: School resources, student performance, housing prices, and earnings; title: Production and cost function approaches to school resources and school quality; title: Production function approach; title: Cost function approach; title: Summary of relationship between school resources and outcomes; title: School quality and housing values; title: How does the quality of local K-12 public education influence local home values?; title: Statistical determination of increase in home value attributable to quality schools; title: Public school characteristics valued by homebuyers; title: Implications; title: School quality and earnings; title: How school quality could affect earnings; title: Estimated effects of school quality; title: Summary; title: Benefits of preserving K-12 public education spending; title: California's budget situation for fiscal 2003-2004; title: New York's budget situation for fiscal 2003-2004; title: Cutting state support for public K-12 education versus other alternatives; title: Policy implications and concluding remarks.