Volume 11, Number 3 (Summer) 1976
Carroll, Stephen J. 1976. "School District Expenditure Behavior." Journal of Human Resources 11(3):317-327.
The study investigates how local school districts behave in allocating their budgets among teachers, other professional educators, support personnel, and nonpersonnel inputs. Demands for school inputs are estimated using U.S. Office of Education data on the expenditure and staffing patterns of large (enrollments in excess of 10,000 pupils) school districts in the 1969-70 school year. In general, our results suggest that districts' allocative behavior at the margin is quite different from their average allocative behavior. In particular, relatively small proportions of budget increases (occasioned, perhaps, by reforms in school finance) would be allocated to employing additional teachers.
The author is associated with the Rand Corporation. The research reported here was supported by the U.S. Office of Education under Contract OEC-0-71-2533(099). I am indebted to J. McCall, K. Ryder, Jr., and J. Stockfish for their valuable suggestions and to B. Juba for his computational assistance.
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