Nora E. Gordon                          

 

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Contact information

 

Assistant Professor

Department of Economics                                

University of California, San Diego                                                        email: negordon-'at'-ucsd.edu
9500 Gilman Drive                                                                               phone: (858) 534-2988
La Jolla, CA  92093-0508                                                                   fax: (858) 534-7040

Research

Published and accepted papers

“Paying for Progress:  Conditional Grants and the Desegregation of Southern Schools” (joint with Elizabeth Cascio, Ethan Lewis, and Sarah Reber, April 2009 version), forthcoming, Quarterly Journal of Economics.

 

“The Causes of Political Integration:  An Application to School Districts” (joint with Brian Knight, June 2008 version), forthcoming, Journal of Public Economics. 

 

“From Brown to Busing” (joint with Elizabeth Cascio, Ethan Lewis, and Sarah Reber), Journal of Urban Economics 64(2), 296-325, 2008.

 

“Education and the Age Profile of Literacy into Adulthood across Countries” (joint with Elizabeth Cascio and Damon Clark), Journal of Economic Perspectives 22(3), 47-70, 2008. 

 

“The Effects of School District Consolidation on Educational Cost and Quality” (joint with Brian Knight), Public Finance Review 36(4), 408-430, 2008. 

 

“Intergovernmental grants.”  In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, eds. Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume and.  New York:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.  Palgrave Macmillan. 29 May 2008 <http://www.dictionaryofeconomics.com/article?id=pde2008_I000295> doi:10.1057/9780230226203.0822

 

The Changing Federal Role in Education Finance and Governance.”  In Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy, Helen F. Ladd and Edward B. Fiske, eds.  New York:  Routledge, 2008.

 

“Challenges in Redistributing Resources across Local School Districts:  Evidence from Title I and State School Finance Equalizations.”  In To Educate a Nation: Federal and National Strategies of School Reform, eds. Carl Kaestle and Alyssa Lodewick.  Lawrence, KS:  University Press of Kansas, 2007.

 

“The Effect of State Education Finance Reform on Total Local Resources” (joint with Katherine Baicker), Journal of Public Economics 90(8-9), 1519-1534, Jan. 2006.

 

Improving Informed Consent and Enhancing Recruitment for Research by Understanding Economic Behavior” (joint with Laura B. Dunn),

Journal of the American Medical Association 293(5), February 2, 2005, 609-612.

 

“Educational Finance Equalization, Spending, Teacher Quality and Student Outcomes:  The Case of Brazil’s FUNDEF,” (joint with Emiliana Vegas) in E. Vegas (ed.), Incentives to Improve Teaching:  Lessons from Latin America.  Washington, DC:  The World Bank, 2005.

 

“Do Federal Funds Boost School Spending? Evidence from Title I,” Journal of Public Economics 88(9-10), August 2004, 1771-92.

Work in progress

“State and Local Fiscal Responses to the Introduction of Title I,” (joint with Elizabeth Cascio and Sarah Reber).

 

“What Explains State Regulation of Home Schooling?”

 

“The Industrial Organization of the Market for Comprehensive School Reform Programs,” (joint with Silke Forbes).

 

“Bilingual Education versus English Immersion: Findings from California's Proposition 227,” (joint with Caroline Hoxby).

 

Teaching  

Undergraduate Economics of the Public Sector: Expenditure (Econ 151) Spring 2006.  Syllabus: pdf    

 

Undergraduate Economics of Education (Econ 147) Spring 2008.  Syllabus:  pdf          

 

Graduate Economics of the Public Sector: Expenditure (Econ 231) Spring 2008.  Syllabus:  pdf

Affiliations

National Bureau of Economic Research             CREATE         UCSD Institute for Applied Economics