TY  - JOUR
AU  - Hanushek,Eric A.
TI  - The Failure of Input-based Schooling Policies
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 9040
PY  - 2002
Y2  - July 2002
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9040
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9040.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Eric A. Hanushek
Hoover Institution
Stanford University
Stanford, CA  94305-6010
Tel: 650/736-0942
Fax: 650/723-1687
E-Mail: hanushek@stanford.edu
AB  - In an effort to improve the quality of schools, governments around the world have dramatically increased the resources devoted to them.  By concentrating on inputs and ignoring the incentives within schools, the resources have yielded little in the way of general improvement in student achievement.  This paper provides a review of the United States and international evidence on the effectiveness of such input policies.  It then contrasts the impact of resources with that of variations in teacher quality that are not systematically related to school resources.  Finally, alternative performance incentive policies are described.
ER  -