Intergovernmental Grants to School Districts and Educational Outcomes During the COVID-19 Pandemic

We are grateful to Jensen Ahokovi and Shantanu Kamat for their research assistance. We would also like to thank Vincent Armantano, David Arnold, Julia Barezneva, Vafa Behnam, Julian Betts, Jonathan Brownrigg, Richard Carson, Gabriel Canedo Riedel, Matthew Chingos, Julie Berry Cullen, Gordon Dahl, Ricardo Di Cato, Maria de la Paz Ferro, Martha Fiehn, Erick Gong, Amanda Gregg, Idaliya Grigoryeva, Angela Gu, John Juneau, Juan Hernandez Leal, Thomas Kane, Beata Luczywek, Caitlin Knowles Myers, Paul Sommers, and Yuli Xu as well as conference and seminar participants at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, Middlebury College, the National Bureau of Economic Research Conference on Fiscal Dynamics of State and Local Governments, the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, and UCSD for their helpful comments. Clemens thanks the Hoover Institution at Stanford University for financial support in his capacity as an adjunct Senior Fellow and the Institute for Humane Studies for financial support in his capacity as a Distinguished Fellow. Hoxie acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2022295990) and thanks the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for its support of the NBER Fiscal and Economic Effects of Productivity Policies Fellowship and the Institute for Humane Studies for financial support in his capacity as a Junior Fellow (IHS020222). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.