Caroline M. Hoxby

Stanford University

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A Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities

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A Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities

NBER Working Paper No. W10803

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 11 Oct 2004

Christopher Avery, Mark E. Glickman, Caroline M. Hoxby and Andrew Metrick

Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard University - Department of Statistics, Stanford University and Yale School of Management

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A Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities

NBER Working Paper No. w10803

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 12 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2022

Christopher Avery, Mark E. Glickman, Caroline M. Hoxby and Andrew Metrick

Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Harvard University - Department of Statistics, Stanford University and Yale School of Management

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Do Private Schools Provide Competition for Public Schools?

NBER Working Paper No. w4978

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 11 Aug 2000 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2022

Caroline M. Hoxby

Stanford University

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What Do America's 'Traditional' Forms of School Choice Teach Us About School Choice Reforms?

Economic Policy Review, Vol. 4, No. 1, March 1998

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 23 Oct 2007

Caroline M. Hoxby

Stanford University

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Would School Choice Change the Teaching Profession?

NBER Working Paper No. w7866

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 25 Aug 2000 Last Revised: 31 Dec 2022

Caroline M. Hoxby

Stanford University

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The Effects of Class Size and Composition on Student Achievement: New Evidence from Natural Population Variation

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The Effects of Class Size and Composition on Student Achievement: New Evidence from Natural Population Variation

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 23 Feb 1999

Caroline M. Hoxby

Stanford University

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The Effects of Class Size and Composition on Student Achievement: New Evidence from Natural Population Variation

NBER Working Paper No. w6869

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 22 Jun 2000 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2022

Caroline M. Hoxby

Stanford University

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Political Jurisdictions in Heterogeneous Communities

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Political Jurisdictions in Heterogeneous Communities

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 28 Feb 2002

Alberto F. Alesina, Reza Baqir and Caroline M. Hoxby

Harvard University - Department of Economics, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and Stanford University

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Political Jurisdictions in Heterogeneous Communities

NBER Working Paper No. w7859

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 19 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 24 Dec 2022

Alberto F. Alesina, Reza Baqir and Caroline M. Hoxby

Harvard University - Department of Economics, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and Stanford University

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Political Jurisdictions in Heterogeneous Communities

Posted: 28 Apr 2004

Alberto F. Alesina, Reza Baqir and Caroline M. Hoxby

Harvard University - Department of Economics, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and Stanford University

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How the Changing Market Structure of U.S. Higher Education Explains College Tuition

NBER Working Paper No. w6323

Number of pages: 80 Posted: 06 Sep 2000 Last Revised: 13 Oct 2022

Caroline M. Hoxby

Stanford University

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The Missing "One-Offs": the Hidden Supply of High-Achieving, Low Income Students

NBER Working Paper No. w18586

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 07 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2023

Caroline M. Hoxby and Christopher Avery

Stanford University and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)

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Peer Effects in the Classroom: Learning from Gender and Race Variation

NBER Working Paper No. w7867

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 25 Aug 2000 Last Revised: 01 Jan 2023

Caroline M. Hoxby

Stanford University

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Citation 45

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The Governance and Performance of Research Universities: Evidence from Europe and the U.S

NBER Working Paper No. w14851

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 13 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2022

Philippe Aghion, Mathias Dewatripont, Caroline M. Hoxby, Andreu Mas-Colell and Andre Sapir

College de France and London School of Economics and Political Science, Fellow, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) - European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES), Stanford University, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) - European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES)

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Do and Should Financial Aid Packages Affect Students' College Choices?

NBER Working Paper No. w9482

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 27 Oct 2003 Last Revised: 30 Nov 2022

Christopher Avery and Caroline M. Hoxby

Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Stanford University

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School Choice and School Productivity (or Could School Choice Be a Tide that Lifts All Boats?)

NBER Working Paper No. w8873

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 04 Apr 2002 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2022

Caroline M. Hoxby

Stanford University

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Robin Hood and His Not-so-Merry Plan: Capitalization and the Self-Destruction of Texas' School Finance Equalization Plan

NBER Working Paper No. w10722

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 17 Sep 2004 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2022

Caroline M. Hoxby and Ilyana Kuziemko

Stanford University and Harvard University - Department of Economics

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The Cost of Accountability

NBER Working Paper No. w8855

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 28 Mar 2002 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2022

Caroline M. Hoxby

Stanford University

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Charter Schools in New York City: Who Enrolls and How They Affect Their Students' Achievement

NBER Working Paper No. w14852

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 13 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2022

Caroline M. Hoxby and Sonali Murarka

Stanford University and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Competition Among Public Schools: A Reply to Rothstein (2004)

NBER Working Paper No. w11216

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 28 Apr 2005 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2022

Caroline M. Hoxby

Stanford University

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The Changing Selectivity of American Colleges

NBER Working Paper No. w15446

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 27 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2023

Caroline M. Hoxby

Stanford University

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Cost Should Be No Barrier: An Evaluation of the First Year of Harvard's Financial Aid Initiative

NBER Working Paper No. w12029

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 27 Apr 2006 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2022

Christopher Avery, Caroline M. Hoxby, Clement Jackson, Kaitlin Burek, Glenn Pope and Mridula Raman

Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Stanford University, Harvard University - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard College, Harvard College and Havard College

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Is There an Equity-Efficiency Trade-Off in School Finance? Tiebout and a Theory of the Local Public Goods Producer

NBER Working Paper No. w5265

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 26 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2022

Caroline M. Hoxby

Stanford University

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Overidentification Tests with Grouped Data

NBER Working Paper No. t0223

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 19 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2023

Caroline M. Hoxby and M. Daniele Paserman

Stanford University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Department of Economics

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The Economics of Online Postsecondary Education: Moocs, Nonselective Education, and Highly Selective Education

NBER Working Paper No. w19816

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 22 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2023

Caroline M. Hoxby

Stanford University

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Does Competition Among Public Schools Benefit Students and Taxpayers?

NBER Working Paper No. w4979

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 25 May 2006 Last Revised: 11 Aug 2022

Caroline M. Hoxby

Stanford University

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Explaining Rising Income and Wage Inequality Among the College Educated

NBER Working Paper No. w6873

Number of pages: 82 Posted: 10 May 1999 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2022

Caroline M. Hoxby and Bridget Long

Stanford University and Harvard University - Harvard Graduate School of Education

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The Hated Property Tax: Salience, Tax Rates, and Tax Revolts

NBER Working Paper No. w18514

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 03 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2023

Marika Cabral and Caroline M. Hoxby

University of Texas at Austin and Stanford University

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All School Finance Equalizations are Not Created Equal

NBER Working Paper No. w6792

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 01 Dec 1998 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2022

Caroline M. Hoxby

Stanford University

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What High-Achieving Low-Income Students Know About College

NBER Working Paper No. w20861

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 20 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2022

Caroline M. Hoxby and Sarah E. Turner

Stanford University and University of Virginia

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Benevolent Colluders? the Effects of Antitrust Action on College Financial Aid and Tuition

NBER Working Paper No. w7754

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 17 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2022

Caroline M. Hoxby

Stanford University

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Endowment Management Based on a Positive Model of the University

NBER Working Paper No. w18626

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 22 Dec 2012 Last Revised: 25 May 2023

Caroline M. Hoxby

Stanford University

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The Productivity of Schools and Other Local Public Goods Providers

NBER Working Paper No. w6911

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 12 Mar 1999 Last Revised: 22 May 2022

Caroline M. Hoxby

Stanford University

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The Returns to the Federal Tax Credits for Higher Education

NBER Working Paper No. w20833

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 12 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2022

George Bulman and Caroline M. Hoxby

University of California, Santa Cruz - Department of Economics and Stanford University

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The Effects of the Tax Deduction for Postsecondary Tuition: Implications for Structuring Tax-Based Aid

NBER Working Paper No. w21554

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 14 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 25 May 2023

Caroline M. Hoxby and George Bulman

Stanford University and University of California, Santa Cruz - Department of Economics

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Measuring Opportunity in U.S. Higher Education

NBER Working Paper No. w25479

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 30 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2022

Caroline M. Hoxby and Sarah E. Turner

Stanford University and University of Virginia

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Stanford University

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