Given the large numbers of competing proposals for improving urban schools so that
students perform better, policymakers need to know budget as well as performance …

This paper extends the existing literature on educational cost functions in the following ways:
it employs flexible cost functions to comply with prior theoretical expectations about price …

Background/Context High school reform is currently at the top of the education policy making
agenda after years of stagnant achievement and persistent racial and income test score …

Empirical estimates of production frontiers and average production functions, performed
here for selected public elementary school districts in California for 1976–1977 and 1977 …

Since 1970, essentially all research favors the creation of small high schools. Four forces
that have contributed to the growing obsolescence of large, comprehensive high schools are …

Small size is often cited by reformers and parents as the key ingredient necessary to create
an effective learning environment. In New York City, the new public secondary schools have …

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between the size and characteristics of
schools and the average cost of output. This relationship is highly relevant to the …

The importance of the economies of scale studies of school costs can hardly be
overemphasized in a period of generally contracting school systems in the Western World …

The education cost literature includes econometric studies attempting to determine
economies of scale, or estimate an optimal school or district size. Not only do their results …

With the financial support of several large foundations and the federal government, creating
small schools has become a prominent high school reform strategy in many large American …