Developments in School Finance, 1997- Does Money Matter? Does Money Matter? An Empirical Study Introducing Resource Costs and Student Needs to Educational Production Function Analysis

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About the Author

Corrine Taylor Department of Economics University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Corrine Taylor is a doctoral candidate in economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She will join the faculty at Wellesley College as an assistant professor of economics in the fall of 1998. Ms. Taylor teaches microeconomics, state and local public finance, and statistics. Her research focuses on the economics of education, in particular, elementary and secondary school finance.

As a graduate student, Ms. Taylor served as a researcher on the Teacher Compensation Project of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education. She was awarded a Spencer Dissertation Fellowship for Research Related to Education (1996-97). Ms. Taylor is a member of the American Economic Association and the American Educational Research Association.

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