Curriculum Vitae

Helen F. Ladd

214A Sanford Bldg
Sanford School of Public Policy
Box 90245
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708 		(919) 613-7352 (office)
(email)
Education

PhDHarvard University1974
MSc with distinctionLondon School of Economics1968
B.A.Wellesley College1967

Areas of Research

Education Policy and State & Local Public Finance

Professional Experience / Employment History

University of Amsterdam
Visiting Research Scholar, Spring Term, 2009
Duke University
Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy Studies and Professor of Economics
Professor of Economics, 1991- present
Professor of Public Policy Studies, 1986 - present
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Fulbright Scholar (Lecture/research) Economics Department, February-July 2002
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Fulbright Scholar (Lecture/research), February-July 1998
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA
Senior Fellow, September 1989-June 1990
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, July 1981-September 1986
Design School and Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning, 1980-1981
Design School, Harvard University
Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning, 1978-1980
Wellesley College
Assistant Professor of Economics, Fall 1974-1977
Instructor in Economics, Spring term 1973
Harvard University
Teaching Fellow, Academic year 1973-1974
Dartmouth College
Instructor in Economics, Fall term 1971
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Spencer Foundation Invited Lecture, Spencer Foundation Invited Lecture "Holding Schools Accountable Revisited." Award in recognition of excellence in education policy and management given jointly by the Spencer Foundation and the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, November 8, 2007
Richard A. Stubbing Teacher Mentor Award, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University, May 13, 2006
Raymond Vernon prize, 2004
Aaron B. Wildavsky Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement in Public Budgeting, APSA's Association for Budgeting and Financial Management, September, 2003
Edgar T. Thompson Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke University
Steve Gold Award, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, the National Tax Association, and the National Conference of State Legislatures in honor of Steve Gold for work in state and local public finance, October, 2002
Fulbright Grant to South Africa, spring 2002
Fulbright grant to New Zealand, spring 1998
Howard Johnson Teaching Award, Duke University, 1994
Manuel Carballo Award for Excellence in Teaching, John F. Kennedy School of Government, June 1986
Non-Tenure Faculty Fellowship, Bunting Institute, 1981-1983
James L. Barr Memorial Award for Work in Applied Public Economics, 1980
Tax Institute of America Outstanding Dissertation Award, National Tax Association, 1974
Urban Public Finance Fellowship, Harvard Ford Foundation Grant, 1972-1973
Harvard Fellowship, 1969-1971
Edna V. Moffar Fellowship, 1967
Fulbright Grant to London, 1967-1968
Wellesley College Trustee Fellowship, 1967
Phi Beta Kappa (Junior year at Wellesley College), 1966
Professional Service

University Committee
Member, Academic Council, 2004 - present, 1999-2001
Member, Executive Committee of Academic Council, 2006-07
Member, Committee on University Distinguished Professors, 2005-2007
Member, Duke Rhodes Interview Committee, Marshall and Mitchell Scholarships, 2007
Member, Search Committee for Dean of Arts and Sciences, October 1, 2003 - February 1, 2004
Member, Duke Rhodes Interview Committee, Fall 2003
Member, Executive Committee of Academic Council, 2000-2001, 1995-1996
Member, Faculty Compensation Committee, 2000
Member, Search Committee for Provost of Duke, 1998-99
Member, Review committee for dean of the Law School, 1997
Member, President's Advisory Committee on Resources (PACOR), 1996-1997
Member, Search Committee for Chief Financial Officer, 1994
Member, Provost's Academic Priorities Committee, 1991-1994
Member, Executive Committee of the Graduate School, 1991-1993
Member, Duke Rhodes Committee, 1987-1997
Dept Officer
Director of Graduate Studies, Sanford Institute of Public Policy, 2005-2006, 1998-2001, 1995-1997
Associate Director, Sanford Institute of Public Policy, August 2002-June 2005
Dept Committee
Member, MPP Admissions Committee, 2003 - present
Member, Sanford Institute departmental committee on faculty hiring, 2007
AHEC, Sanford Institute ad hoc executive committee, 2007
Tenure review committee for William Darity, September, 2006 - November, 2006
Chair, Search committee for two professors of the practice, 2005
Chair, Tenure review committee for external candidate, Janet Currie, 2005
Chair, Search committee for open rank position in social policy/child and family policy, Fall 2004
Member, Search committee for new faculty member in philanthropy and public policy, Spring 2004-2005
Chair, Tenure review committee for external candidate, Ariel Kalil, 2004
Chair, Search committee for social policy position, 2003
Member, Tenure review committee for Kate Whetten, Fall 2003
Chair, Black Faculty Strategic Initiative committee in Public Policy Studies, 2003
Member, Review Committee for Robert Korstad, 2001
Member, Search Committee for Junior Position in PPS, 2000
Member, Review committee for Joseph Lipscomb's promotion to full professor, 1998
Member, Search committee for director of the Institute, 1997
Member, Review committee for Leonard Beckum (PPS) and Carol Mansfield (NSOE), 1997
Member, Promotions committee for Jim Leitzel in public policy, 1995
Member, Promotions committee for Frederick Mayer in public policy, 1995
Member, Search committee for assistant professor of public policy, 1994
Univ Services
Faculty member, Duke Univeristy Governor's Center summer program in Policy Analysis for state executives, 1988 and 1989
Other
Co-chair, Education Task Force, 2006 - present
Co-editor for education policy and state and local finance, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2005 - present
Member, Editorial board of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2003 - present
Member, Research Advisory Board, Committee for Economic Development, 1998 - present
Faculty representative to Trustee subcommittee on Institutional Advancement, February 2009
Member, MPP admissions committee, February 2009
Member, committee on faculty hiring, February 2009
Member, Ad Hoc Executive Committee (AHEC), February 2009
Co-editor, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, February 2009
Provost's Advisory Committee on Distinguished Professors, May 2008
Member, External examiner for a Ph.D. Dissertation defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Nov. 2007
Member, Member of the management team of the Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)
Member, NC Blue Ribbon Commission on Testing and Accountability. (Report to the State Board of Education scheduled for January 9, 2008.)
Member of U.S. Department of Education Review Panel, October 2006
Discussant at the conference titled, "What Do We Owe Each Other?", September 2006
Member, Department of Housing and Urban Development advisory committee on Cityscape, 1994-1998
Member, Advisory Committee for the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE), 1990-1998
Member, Board of the American Education Finance Association, 2004-2007
Member, Peer review panel for Research on Education Finance, Leadership and Management, April 2004
Panelist on educational leadership, Wallace Foundation, December 2004
Member, Working Group on State Preschool Evaluation, 2003
Expert member, OECD Territorial Review of the Greater Helsinki Region, October 2001
Member, National Academy of Education and Social Science Research Council Joint Committee on Education Research, 2001-2003
Member, Task Force on Restoring the American Common School Ideal, 2001
Member, External review committee, Taubman center for public policy, Brown University, February 2000
Member, Working Group on "Results-based Planning, Budgeting, Management, and Accountability Systems", 1995 - 1998
Member, Advisory Council on Education Statistics, 1997-1999
Co-chair, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Education Finance: Productivity, Adequacy, and Equity, 1996-1999
Chair, external review committee of the Wellesley College economics department, September 1996
Member, technical advisory group for the Urban Institute project, "Assessing of the New Federalism", 1996-1998
Member, search committee for new executive director of the National Tax Association, 1995
Member, search committee for new executive director of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 1995
Member, external review committee to evaluate the Graduate School of Public Policy, Berkeley, CA, February 1995
Consultant, Barents Group on Fiscal Federalism in Ukraine, May 1995
Member, dissertation Award Committee of the Association of Policy Analysis and Management, 1994, 1995
Member, External review committee to evaluate program in political economy, Williams College, April 1994
Consultant, Environmental Protection Agency, 1994
President, National Tax Association, 1993-1994
Member, Governor Hunt's Task Force on Business Recruitment in North Carolina, 1993-1994
Member, Consortium on Productivity in the Schools, 1992-1995
Member, National Advisory Committee for the Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois, 1992-1994
First vice president, National Tax Association, 1992-1993
second vice president, National Tax Association, 1991-1992
Vice-president, Policy Council for the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 1990-1992
Member, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, discipline review committee for Fulbright applications in economics, 1990-1992
Member, Program committee and nominating committee of the National Tax Association, 1990
Member, External review committee to evaluate Economics Department, Williams College, May 1990
Member, North Carolina Academy of Sciences Peer Review Panel for the citing of a low-level radioactive waste facility, 1988
Consultant, Environmental Protection Agency on the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Program, March-April 1988
Member, Policy Council of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 1987-1991; 1992-1996
Associate Editor, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 1987-1995
Associate Editor, Evaluation Review, 1987-1989
Participant, NBER Summer Institute in State and Local Public Finance, August 1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1992
Gubernatorial Appointee, Massachusetts Special Commission Relative to the Current Local Aid Distribution Formula, 1985-1986
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of the American Planning Association, 1985-1992
Member, Technical Review Panel for U.S. Treasury study of federal-state local relations, 1985
Member, Chairman's Economic Policy and Tax and Advisory Group, Joint Committee on Taxation, Massachusetts Legislature, 1984
Supervisor of teaching case, teaching case, "Financing Mass Transit in Philadelphia", 1984
Member, Editorial Board, National Tax Journal, 1983-1992, 1993-1995
Member, Editorial Board, Research on Urban Policy, 1983-1985
Member, Massachusetts Local Aid Study Group, January 1983-1985
Chair, Intergovernmental Relations Committee, National Tax Association - Tax Institute of America, 1983-1985
Director, National Tax Association - Tax Institute of America, 1982-1984
Consultant, Transportation financing project, Charles Riven Associates, 1982-1983
Faculty Affiliate, IMPACT 2 1/2, A Collaborative University Effort to Monitor the Impacts of Proposition 2 1/2, 1981-1983
Co-Chairperson, National Tax Association - Tax Institute of America, Long Range Planning Committee, 1980-1982
Treasurer, American Economic Association Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, 1979-1982
Lectures

Invited Lectures:
League of Women Voters in Orange County on Accountability, 2008
Seminar presentation black white test score gap at Davidson, 2008
Presentation of CALDER related research annual research meeting of the Institute of Education Sciences, 2007
Presentation of research on high poverty schools and the distribution of teachers at the Harvard Achievement Gap Initiative Conference, 2007
Various presentations and discussions with the media related to chapter with Francisco Riviera-Batiz on education policy in Puerto Rico and San Juan, 2007
Presentation on the legacy of Richard Musgrave, Special Plenary Session in Memory of Richard Musgravee. 63rd Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, University of Warwick, England 27-30, 2007
Two presentations of joint work with Charles Clotfelter and Jacob Vigdor at the first annual public conference sponsored by CALDER, Washington, D.C., 2007
Talk to the Research Advisory Board of the Committee for Economic Development on accountability and teacher labor markets, Washington, D.C., 2007
Presentation of paper on teacher credentials and student achievement at the high school level, APPAM anuual meetings, Washington, D.C., 2007
Spencer Foundation Lecture, Washington, D.C., 2007
Panelist, National Tax Association Meetings session with previous winners of the NTA dissertation award, Columbus, Ohio, 2007
Seminar presentation of paper on teacher credentials and student achievement at the high school level, Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, 2007
Presentation on the importance of teacher credentials,, Education Trust, 2007
Seminar at the University of Amsterdam on Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement, 2007
Comments on the contributions of Richard Musgrave, National Tax Association May meeting, Washington, D.C., 2007
Comments on paper by Thomas Nechyba, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA, 2007
Presentation on high poverty schools and the distribution of teachers and principals, UNC Conference on High Poverty Schooling in American, October 2006
Presentation on charter schools in North Carolina., Charter School Conference at Vanderbilt University, September 2006
Presentation on how and why teacher credentials matter for student achievement, Economics of Education-International Conference, Dijon, France, July, 2006
Presentation on PhD and Undergraduate Programs in Public Policy, Annual Summer APPAM Meeting in Park City, UT, June 2006
Presentation on teacher labor markets in developed countries, Princeton University, April 2006
Lecture on race and charter schools, Brown University, February 2006
Presentation on charter schools, Institute of Education, University of London, England, November 2006
Presentation on how and why teacher credentials matter for student achievement, Labour Economics Seminar, Oxford University, November 2006
Invited lecture on accountability, International Forum on Accountability in Education, Mexico City, October 2005
Keynote presentation: Building Common Ground: Towards A "Sound Basic Education" in NC: Implications for Research & Action, conference, School Finance in an International Prespective, University of North Carolina, April 2005
Monore-Paine Distinguished Lecture, Truman School, University of Missouri, February 2005
Invited Lecture, Askwith Education Forum at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Mass., February 2005
Invited public lecture, University of Maryland Baltimore County, November 2004
Presentation on charter school performance, Committee on Education, National Academy of Sciences, November 2004
Presentation on Elusive Equity, World Bank, October 2004
Invited expert on charter schools, WUNC, The State of Things radio program, September 2004
Presentation, Kaufman Foundation, June 2004
Presentation at Brown vs. Board of Education, Conversations across Generations. Hillside High School, Durham, NC, April 2004
Presentation of policy brief on accountability in North Carolina to the New York Symposium on School Finance and Organizational Structure, New York State, March 2004
Presentation on Education and Growth, Committtee on Economic Development,Washington, D.C., October 2003
Speaker - Minnesota Economics Association, Minneapolis, MN, October, 2003
Acceptance Speech for Wildavsky Award for Lifetime Achievement in Public Finance and Budgeting, Washington, D.C., September, 2003
Testimony on school vouchers, hearing on Alternative Schools and Educational Reform in theDistrict of Columbia, Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, U.S. Congress, May, 2003
Presentation to Education Writers' Association on School Finance, Chcago, IL, April, 2003
Respondent, Joseph D. Moore Lecture, N.C.State, October 2003
Presentation to National Academy of Sciences Panel on Education Research, June 2003
Briefing to the U.S.Commission on Civil Rights, June, 2003
Presentation on No Child Left Behind, CED Research Advisory Board, 2003
School Reform in South Africa, Wellesley College, November 2002
Presentation of paper on school vouchers, New York Law School, October 2002
Keynote speaker, conference for graduate students in economics, three Western Cape universities, April 2002
presentation to senior management, Stellenbosch and Cape Town Universities, June 2002
Seminar presentation, University of Florida, Department of Economics, November 2001
Jerry Miller lecture on school accountability, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, November 2001
Seminar presentation, Duke Seminar on Globalization Equity and Democratic Governance, September 2001
Speaker on school choice, Institute of Michigan School Superintendents, June 2001
Presentation on residential mobility programs, John Locke Foundation, April 2001
Presentation, UNESCO seminar, Paris, France, March 2001
Presentation on School Choice in New Zealand, MDRC, New York City, March 2001
Keynote speaker on accountability, North Carolina State Board of Education, September 2001
Presenter and participant in the U.S. Secretary of Education's Forum on Research and Value-Added Assessment Data, Wednesday, December 5, 2000
Meetings:
Presentation by Video Teleconference on Educational Accountability, Spitzer Transition Team and the Center for Fiscal Equity, New York, NY, December 18, 2006
Member of Expert Panel on Community Development Block Grant Formula, National Academy of Sciences and GAO, Washington, D.C., December 2006
Presentation of "The Effects of Accountability on Student Achievement.", Urban Institute for the US Department of Education in Washington, D.C., September 2006
"Do School Accountability Systems Make it More Difficult for Low Performing Schools to Attract and Retain High Quality Teachers?", American Economic Association Meetings, Washington, DC, January 2003
Panelist AEFA on Use of State Administrative Data for Education Research, March 2003
Presentation of my introduction to international book on "Choosing Choice", AERA meetings in Chicago, April 2003
"Balancing Public and Private Resources for Basic Education: School Fees in Post-apartheid Africa", Spencer Foundation Duke training seminar, February 2003
Segregation and Resegregation in North Carolina's Public School Classrooms, Havard Civil Rights Project and the University of North Carolina School of Law, August 2002
Who Teaches Whom?: Race and Distribution of Novice Teachers, American Economic Association Meetings, January 2002
Presentation, Annual Meeting of Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Dallas, TX, November 2002
"Financing Schools in Post Apartheid South Africa: Initial Steps Toward Fiscal Equity", International Conference on Education and Decentralization: African Experiences and Comparative Analysis", Johannesburg, June 2002
Do School Accountability Systems Make it More Difficult for Low Performing Schools to Attract and Retain High Quality Teachers?, Southern Economic Association Meetings, 2002
Participant in Rand working group on Measuring Value Added in education, October 2002
Does Competition Improve Teaching and Learning: Evidence from New Zealand, AERA meetings, April 2001
Discussant in two sessions and chair of another session at APPAM annual meetings, November 2001
Participant in workshop, The Effects of School Finance Reform on Education in America's Cities, University of Illinois at Chicago, June 2001
Moderator, NC Emerging Issues Forum, Raleigh, NC, February 2001
Talks:
Discussant on paper by Ludwig and Jacob, Institute for Research on Poverty, May 29-30, 2008
Discussant, National Academy of Sciences Workshop on value added modeling, Washington, D.C., Nov. 13-14, 2008
Moderator of session, Campaign for Educational Equity,, Teachers' College, New York, Nov. 24-25, 2008
Presentation on teacher mobility, Shanker Institute, Washington, D.C., Nov. 20, 2008
Presentation on teacher credentials, CALDER public meeting, Nov. 21, 2008
Seminar presentations, University of KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg, May 2005
Seminar presentation on Teacher Quality and Student Achievement, Dean's working group on the Race Achievement Gap Initiative, Harvard Graduate School of Education, June 2004
"Teacher Sorting Teacher Shopping, and the Assessment of Teacher Effectiveness", Duke University Child Development Seminar, February 2004
Conferences:
Presentation on High School credentials, AEFA Meetings, NYC, March 2008
Presentation on Teacher Working Conditions, AEGA Meetings, Denver, April 2008
Moderator, CALDER value added conference, Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008
Panelist at Education 08 Conference, Library of Congress, June 27, 2008
Presentation on teacher working conditions, APPAM Meetings, Washington, D.C., November 2008
Presentation of teacher working conditions, Southern Economics Association, Nov. 22, 2008
Presentation of Research on Charter Schools, Inaugural Conference of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, December 2006
Set up and moderated concurrent plenary session on No Child Left Behind, APPAM Fall Conference, Madison, WI, November 2006
Presentation of paper, "Reflections on Equity, Adequacy, and Weighted Student Funding.", Annual Fall APPAM Conference, Madison, WI, November 2006
Attended Brookings-Wharton Conference on Urban Policy, October 2006
Presentation of paper, "How and Why Do Teacher Credentials Matter for Student Achievement?", American Education Finance Association, meeting held in Denver, Colorado, March 2006
Conference on Education and Decentralization, January 13-14, 2005
Participant as co-author in Brookings-CNE conference, San Juan Puerto Rico, May 2004
Conference" The State's Fiscal Crisis: What Should the Federal Government Do?", Taubman Center of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, May, 2003
Participated in telephone press conference on school vouchers, following Press Conference by Paul Peterson, June 2003
Presentation for conference."The State's Fiscal Crisis: What Should The Federal Government Do?", May 29-30, 2003
Discussant of paper on school vouchers by Caroline Hoxby at economics of education conference, Stockholm, Sweden, March 2003
What Determines Segregation Levels in Public Schools?, Association for Public Policy and Management Annual Research Conference, November 2002
Financing Schools in Post Apartheid South Africa: Initial Steps Toward Fiscal Equity, Paper presented at International Conference on Education and Decentralizastion: African Experiences and Comparative Analysis", Johannesburg, June 2002
Participant in Duke University Conference on Incentives, on the Etics of Incentives, December 2001
Discussant on paper by Joseph Cordes at conference to honor Dick Netzer, Wagner School, New York, October 2001
Discussant, Brookings Institution conference on Accountability and Its Consequences for Students, April 2001
Lunchtime speaker at National Conference on Choice sponsored by Rutgers University, January 2001
Speaker at Conference on Privatization, Economic Policy Institute, January 2001

Publications

Books

  1. H.F. Ladd and Edward B. Fiske eds., Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy (2008), Routledge (Official handbook of the American Education Finance Association..).
  2. Edward B. Fiske and Helen F. Ladd, Elusive Equity: Education Reform in Post Aprtheid South Agrica. (2004), Brookings Institution Press ((Also available through as an HSRC press publication, Capetown, South Africa, 2005)..).
  3. H.F. Ladd, Market-Based Reforms in Education (February 2002), Economic Policy Institute: Washington, D.C..
  4. Edward B. Fiske and Helen F. Ladd, When Schools Compete: A Cautionary Tale (2000), Brookings Institution Press.
  5. H.F. Ladd and Janet Hansen, Making Money Matter: Financing America's Schools, National Academy of Sciences Press (Final report of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Education Finance). (November, 1999).
  6. Making Money Matter: Financing America's Schools, edited by Helen Ladd and Janet Hansen (November 1999), National Academy of Sciences Press (Final report of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Education Finance.).
  7. H.F. Ladd, with Janet Hansen and Rosemary A. Chalk, Equity and Adequacy in Education Finance: Issues and Perspectives, National Academy of Sciences Press (January, 1999).
  8. H.F. Ladd, The Challenge of Fiscal Disparities for State and Governments: The Selected Essays of Helen F. Ladd (1999), Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.
  9. H.F. Ladd, Local Government Tax and Land Use Policy: Understanding the Links (primary author and editor) (1998), Edward Elgar Publishing Limited (Selected by Choice as an outstanding academic book in 1998.).
  10. H.F. Ladd, Holding Schools Accountable: Performance-Based Reform in Education (editor, author of introduction and coauthor of two chapters) (1996), Brookings Institution.
  11. H.F. Ladd with John Yinger, America's Ailing Cities: Fiscal Health and the Design of Urban Policy (1989), Johns Hopkins University Press (Updated edition in paperback, with new epilogue, 1991.).
  12. H.F. Ladd with John Yinger, Howard Bloom and Axel Borsch-Supan, Property Taxes and House Values: The Theory and Estimation of Intrajurisdictional Property Tax Capitalization (1988), Academic Press.
  13. H.F. Ladd with Robert Schafer, Discrimination in Mortgage Lending (1981), MIT Press.
  14. H.F. Ladd, Tax and Expenditure Limitations (author of introduction and co-editor with Nicolaus Tideman with Nicolaus Tideman) (1981), Urban Institute.

Journal Articles

  1. H.F. Ladd, Robert Bifulco, Stephen Ross, The Effects of Public School Choice on Those Left Behind: Evidence from Durham, North Carolina, Peabody Journal of Education (Forthcoming).
  2. H.F. Ladd, Robert Bifulco, Stephen Ross, Public School Choice and Integration: Evidence from Durham, North Carolina, Social Science Research (In press).
  3. H.F. Ladd, Charles T. Clotfelter, Jacob L. Vigdor, School Segregation under Color-blind Jurisprudence: The Case of North Carolina, Journal of Social Policy and the Law, vol. 16 no. 1 (Forthcoming).
  4. H.F. Ladd, Charles T. Clotfelter, Jacob L. Vigdor, Are Teacher Absences Worth Worrying About in the U.S.?, Journal of Education Finance, vol. 4 no. 2 (2009).
  5. H.F. Ladd, Charles T. Clotfelter, Jacob L. Vigdor, The Academic Achievement Gap in Grades 3 to 8, Review of Economics and Statistics (Forthcoming).
  6. H.F. Ladd with Charles Clotfelter, Jacob Vigdor, and Elizabeth Glennie, Would Higher Salaries Keep Teachers in High Poverty Schools? Evidence from a Policy Intervention in North Carolina., Journal of Public Economics, vol. 92 no. 5-6 (June, 2008), pp. 1352-1370.
  7. H.F. Ladd with Charles Clotfelter, Elizabeth Glennie and Jacob Vigdor, Teacher Bonuses and Teacher Retention in Low Performing Schools: Evidence from the North Carolina $1,800 Teacher Bonus Program, Public Finance Review, vol. 36 (April, 2008), pp. 63-87.
  8. H.F. Ladd, Reflections on Equity, Adequacy, and Weighted Student Funding, Journal of Education Finance and Policy, vol. 3 no. 4 (2008), pp. 402-423.
  9. H.F. Ladd, Joseph Cordes, Dylan Conger, Michael Luger, Undergraduate and Doctoral Education in Public Policy: What? Why? Why Not? Whereto?, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 27 no. 4 (2008), pp. 1009-1027.
  10. H.F. Ladd with Robert Bifulco, School choice, racial segregation, and test-score gaps: Evidence from North Carolina's charter school program, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 26 no. 1 (Winter 2007), pp. 31-56.
  11. H.F. Ladd, Teacher credentials and student achievement: Longitudinal analysis with student fixed effects, Economics of Education Review (December, 2007).
  12. H.F. Ladd with Charles Clotfelter, Jacob Vigdor and Justin Wheeler, High Poverty Schools and the Distribution of Teachers and Principals, North Carolina Law Review, vol. 85 no. 5 (June, 2007), pp. 1345-1378.
  13. H.F. Ladd, with Charles Clotfelter and Jacob Vigdor, "Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement in High School: A Cross Subject Analysis with Student Fixed Effects (June, 2007).
  14. H.F. Ladd with Charles Clotfelter and Jacob Vigdor, The Academic Achievement Gap in Grades 3 to 8, Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming).
  15. H.F. Ladd and David Figlio, The Economics of School Accountability, International Encyclopedia of Education (forthcoming).
  16. H.F. Ladd, Teacher Labor Markets in Developed Countries, The Future of Children (2007).
  17. Robert Bifulco and Helen F. Ladd, Edited by M. Berends, M Springer and H. Walberg., "Charter Schools in North Carolina" In Charter School Outcomes, New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2007), pp. 195-220.
  18. H.F. Ladd with Charles Clotfelter and Jacob Vigdor, Teacher-Student Matching and the Assessment of Teacher Effectiveness, Journal of Human Resources, vol. 41 no. 4 (Fall 2006), pp. 778-820.
  19. H.F. Ladd with Charles Clotfelter and Jacob Vigdor, Federal Oversight, Local Control, and the Specter of 'Resegregation' in Southern Schools, American Law and Economics Review, vol. 8 (Summer 2006), pp. 1-43.
  20. H.F. Ladd with Edward B. Fiske, Racial Equity in Education: How Far Has South Africa Come?, Special Issue on Education Finance, edited by Jonathan Jansen, Perspectives in Education, vol. 24 (June 2006), pp. 95-108.
  21. H.F. Ladd with Robert Bifulco, Institutional Change and Co-production of Public Services: The Effect of Charter School on Parental Involvement, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, vol. 16 (October 2006), pp. 553-576 [pdf].
  22. H.F. Ladd with Robert Bifulco, Results [about charter schools] from the Tar Heel State, Education Next (Fall 2005), pp. 60-66 [pdf].
  23. H.F. Ladd with Charles Clotfelter and Jacob Vigdor, Who Teaches Whom? Race and the Distribution of Novice Teachers, Economics of Education Review, vol. 24 (2005), pp. 377-392.
  24. H.F. Ladd with Charles Clotfelter and Jacob Vigdor, So School Accountability Systems Make It More Difficult for Low Performing Schools to Attract and Retain High Quality Teachers?, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 23 no. 2 (2004), pp. 251-271 (Winner of Raymond Vernon Prize for the best article in volume 23.).
  25. H.F. Ladd with C.T. Clotfelter and J. Vigdor, Segregation and Resegregation in North Carolina's Public School Classrooms, North Carolina Law Review, vol. 81 no. 4 (May 2003).
  26. H.F. Ladd and E.B. Fiske, Does Competition Improve Teaching and Learning: Evidence from New Zealand, Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis (Spring 2003).
  27. H.F. Ladd, School Vouchers: A Critical View, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 16 no. 4 (Fall 2002), pp. 3-24 (Invited paper.) [pdf].
  28. H.F. Ladd with Arnaldo Zelli, School Based Accountability in North Carolina: The Responses of School Principals, Education Administration Quarterly (October 2002).
  29. H.F. Ladd with Randall Walsh, Implementing Value-Added Measures of School Effectiveness: Getting the Incentives Right, Economics of Education Review, vol. 21 no. 1 (February 2002), pp. 1-17.
  30. H.F. Ladd with Michael Johnsonand Jens Ludwig, The Benefits and Costs of Residenital Mobility Programs for the Poor, Housing Studies, vol. 17 (2002), pp. 125-138.
  31. H.F. Ladd with Edward B. Fiske, The Uneven Playing Field of School Choice: Evidence from New Zealand, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 20 no. 1 (Winter 2001), pp. 43-64.
  32. H.F. Ladd, School Based Educational Accountability Systems: The Promise and the Pitfalls, National Tax Journal, vol. LIV no. 2 (June, 2001), pp. 385-400.
  33. H.F. Ladd with Sheila Murray, Intergenerational Conflict Reconsidered: County Demographic Structure and the Demand for Public Education, Economics of Education Review, vol. 20 (2001), pp. 343-357.
  34. H.F. Ladd with Jens Ludwig and Greg Duncan, The Effects of Urban Poverty on Educational Outcomes: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment, Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, vol. 2 (2001) (Recognized by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as an exemplary paper, 2000.).
  35. H.F. Ladd, The Dallas School Accountability and Incentive Program: An Evaluation of Its Impacts on Student Outcomes, Economics of Education Review (1999).
  36. H.F. Ladd with Jens Ludwig, Residential Relocation Policies in the United States: The Moving to Opportunity Demonstration, Netherlands Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, vol. 14 no. 1 (1999).
  37. H.F. Ladd, Evidence on Discrimination in Mortgage Lending, Journal of Economic Perspectives (May, 1998).
  38. H.F. Ladd with Jens Ludwig, Federal Housing Assistance, Residential Relocation, and Education Opportunities: Evidence from Baltimore, American Economic Review (May, 1997).
  39. H.F. Ladd with James Hamilton, Biased Ballots? The Impact of Ballot Structure on North Carolina Elections in 1992, Public Choice (Summer, 1996).
  40. H.F. Ladd, Catalyst for Learning: Recognition and Reward Programs in the Public Schools, The Brookings Review (Summer, 1996), pp. 14-17.
  41. H.F. Ladd, The Tax Expenditure Concept After 25 Years, NTA Forum (Winter, 1995), pp. 1-5 (Short Version. Presidential address to the National Tax Association, delivered in Charleston, South Carolina, November 1994.).
  42. H.F. Ladd with Edward Harris, Statewide Taxation of Nonresidential Property for Education, Journal of Education Finance (Summer, 1995), pp. 103-122.
  43. H.F. Ladd with William Gentry, State Tax Structure and Multiple Policy Objectives, National Tax Journal (December, 1994).
  44. H.F. Ladd, Spatially Targeted Economic Development Strategies: Do They Work?, Cityscape: A Journal of Policy Development and Research, vol. 1 no. 1 (August, 1994), pp. 193-218.
  45. H.F. Ladd with John Yinger, The Case for Equalizing Aid, National Tax Journal, vol. XLVII no. 1 (March, 1994), pp. 211-224.
  46. H.F. Ladd, Fiscal Impacts of Local Population Growth: A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis, Regional Science and Urban Economics, vol. 24 (1994).
  47. H.F. Ladd, State Responses to the TRA86 Revenue Windfalls: A New Test of the Flypaper Effect, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 12 no. 1 (Winter, 1993), pp. 82-103.
  48. H.F. Ladd, Mimicking of Local Tax Burdens Among Neighboring Counties, Public Finance Quarterly, vol. 20 no. 4 (October, 1992), pp. 450-467.
  49. H.F. Ladd, Population Growth, Density, and the Costs of Providing Public Services, Urban Studies, vol. 29 no. 2 (1992), pp. 273-295.
  50. H.F. Ladd with Andrew Reschovsky and John Yinger, City Fiscal Condition and State Equalizing Aid: the Case of Minnesota, Proceedings of the Eighty-Fourth Annual Conference of the National Tax Association - Tax Institute of American (Columbus, Ohio) (1992), pp. 42-49.
  51. H.F. Ladd, The State Aid Decision: Changes in State Aid to Local Governments, 1982-1987, National Tax Journal, vol. 44 no. 4, Part 2 (December, 1991), pp. 477-496.
  52. H.F. Ladd with William Wheaton, Causes and Consequences of the Changing Urban Form: Introduction, Journal of Regional Science & Urban Economics, vol. 21 no. 2 (July, 1991), pp. 157-162 (Special issue edited by Helen F. Ladd and William Wheaton.).
  53. H.F. Ladd, Property Tax Revaluation and Tax Levy Growth Revisited, Journal of Urban Economics, vol. 30 (1991), pp. 83-99.
  54. H.F. Ladd, Introduction of Symposium on Managing Local Development, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 9 no. 4 (Fall, 1990), pp. 484-486.
  55. H.F. Ladd, State Assistance to Local Governments: Changes During the 1980s, American Economic Review, vol. 80 no. 2 (May, 1990), pp. 171-175.
  56. H.F. Ladd with John Yinger, The Determinants of State Assistance to Central Citieis, National Tax Journal, vol. XLII no. 4 (1990), pp. 413-428.
  57. H.F. Ladd with John Yinger, Recent Trends in City Fiscal Health, National Tax Associaiton - Tax Institute of America, Proceedings of the Eighty Second Annual Conference on Taxation, Atlanta, Georgia (October, 1989).
  58. H.F. Ladd with Katherine Bradbury, City Taxes and City Property Tax Bases, National Tax Journal (December, 1988).
  59. H.F. Ladd with Katherine L. Bradbury, City Property Taxes: The Effects of Economic Change and Competitive Pressures, New England Economic Review (July/August 1987).
  60. H.F. Ladd with Julie Boatright Wilson, Education and Tax Limitations: Evidence from Massachusetts' Proposition 2 1/2, Journal of Education Finance (Winter, 1985).
  61. H.F. Ladd with Katherine L. Bradbury, Changes in the Revenue-Raising Capacity of U.S. Cities: 1970-1982, New England Economic Review (March/April 1985) (A shorter version of this paper, entiteld "Changes in the Fiscal Capacity of U.S. Cities: 1970-1982," is available in the proceedings of the 1984 Annual Conference of the National Tax Association - Tax Institute of America.).
  62. H.F. Ladd with Katherine L. Bradbury, Mark Perrault, Andrew Reschovsky, and John Yinger, State Aid to Offset Fiscal Disparities Across Communities, National Tax Journal (June, 1984).
  63. H.F. Ladd with Julie Boatright Wilson, Who Supports Tax Limitations: Evidence from Massachusetts' Proposition 2 1/2, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (Winter, 1983).
  64. H.F. Ladd with Arnold Howitt, Herman Leonard, and Ann Weeks, Physical Infrastructure in Boston, Urban Resources, vol. 1 no. 2 (Fall, 1983), pp. 5-11.
  65. H.F. Ladd with Howard Bloom, Property Tax Revaluation and Tax Levy Growth, Journal of URban Economics (Winter, 1982).
  66. H.F. Ladd with Fred C. Doolittle, Which Level of Government Should Assist Poor People?, National Tax Journal (September, 1982).
  67. H.F. Ladd with Julie Boatright Wilson, Why Voters Support Tax Limitations: Evidence from Massachusetts' Proposition 2 1/2, National Tax Journal (June, 1982).
  68. H.F. Ladd, Equal Credit Opportunity: Women and Mortgage Credit, American Economic Review (May, 1982).
  69. H.F. Ladd with Katherine L. Bradbury and Claire Christopherson, Proposition 2 1/2: Initial Impacts, Part I, New England Economic Review (January/February 1982).
  70. H.F. Ladd with Katherine L. Bradbury and Claire Christopherson, Proposition 2 1/2: Initial Impacts, Part II, New England Economic Review (March/April 1982) (Part I and II also in Proposition 2 1/2: Its Impact on Massachusetts (Oelgeschlager, Gunn & Hain, 1983.).
  71. H.F. Ladd, Tax Limitations and Educational Finance: Comments, National Tax Journal, Supplement (June, 1979) (Proceedings of a Conference on Tax and Expenditure Limitations, University of California, Santa Barbara, December 1978.).
  72. H.F. Ladd, State Limitations on Local Taxing and Spending Powers: A Response, National Tax Journal (December, 1978).
  73. H.F. Ladd, An Economic Evaluation of State Limitations on Local Taxing and Spending Powers, National Tax Journal (March, 1978).
  74. H.F. Ladd, Statewide Taxation of Commercial and Industrial Property for Education, National Tax Journal (June, 1976).
  75. H.F. Ladd, Local Education Expenditures, Fiscal Capacity, and the Composition of the Property Tax Base, National Tax Journal (June, 1975).

Chapters in Books

  1. H.F. Ladd with E.B. Fiske, Education Equity in an International Context, in Handbook of Research on Education Finance and Policy, edited by H.F. Ladd and Edward B. Fiske (2008), pp. 276-292, Routledge.
  2. H.F. Ladd, School Policies and the Black-White Test Score Gap, in Katherine Magnuson and Jane Waldfogel, eds. Steady Gains and Stalled Progress: Inequality and the Black-White Test Score Gap. (2008), pp. 289-319.
  3. H.F. Ladd and Edward B. Fiske eds., "Introduction", edited by H. F. Ladd and Edward B. Fiske eds., Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy (2008), pp. xvii - xxii, Routledge.
  4. H.F. Ladd, School Accountability and Student Achievement, in Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy, edited by H. F. Ladd and Edward B. Fiske eds. (2008), pp. 166-182, Routledge.
  5. H.F. Ladd with Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz, Education and Economic Development, in The Economy of Puerto Rico: Restoring Growth, edited by Susan Collins, Barry Bosworth and Miguel Soto-Class (2006), pp. 189-238, Brookings Institution Press.
  6. H.F. Ladd, with C.T. Clotfelter, and J. Vigdor, Classroom-Level Segregation and Resegregation in North Carolina, in School Resegregation: Must the South Turn Back?, edited by John Charles Boger and Gary Orfield (2005), Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
  7. H.F. Ladd with Edward B. Fiske, "Balancing Public and Private Resources for Basic Education: School Fees in Post-Apartheid South Africa", in Changing Class: Education and Social Change in Post-Apartheid South Africa, edited by Linda Chisholm. (2004), Cape Town: HSRC Press.
  8. H.F. Ladd with Edward B. Fiske, School Choice in New Zealand: A Cautionary Tale, in Choosing Choice: Global Trends and National Variations, edited by David Plank and Gary Sykes (2003), Teacher's College Press.
  9. H.F. Ladd and Jens Ludwig, The Effects of MTO on Educational Opportunities in Baltimore" chapter 5, in Choosing a Better Life: Evaluating the Moving to Opportunity Social Experiment, edited by John Goering and Judith D. Feins (2003), pp. 117-152, Urban Institute Press.
  10. H.F. Ladd with Jens Ludwig and Greg Duncan, The Effects of MTO on Children and Parents in Baltimore" chapter 6, in Choosing a Better Life: Evaluating the Moving to Opportunity Social Experiment, edited by John Goering and Judith D. Feins (2003), pp. 153-176, Urban Institute Press.
  11. H.F. Ladd, Introduction, in Choosing Choice: Global Trends and National Variations, edited by David Plank and Gary Sykes (2003), Teacher's College Press.
  12. H.F. Ladd with Edward B. Fiske, The U.S. Charter School Movement: Lessons from New Zealand's Experience with Self-Governing Schools and Parental Choice, in Charters, Vouchers & Public Education, edited by Paul Peterson and David Campbell (2001), pp. 59-79, Brookings Institution Press.
  13. H.F. Ladd with Charles Clotfelter, Recognizing the Rewarding Success in Public Schools, in Holding Schools Accountable: Performance-Based Reform in Education, edited by Helen F. Ladd (1996), The Brookings Institution.
  14. H.F. Ladd with Ronald Ferguson, Additional Evidence on How and Why Money Matters: A Production Function Analysis of Alabama Schools, in Holding Schools Accountable: Performance-Based Reform in Education, edited by Helen F. Ladd (1996), The Brookings Institution.
  15. H.F. Ladd, Big City Finances, in Big City Politics, Governance, and Fiscal Constraints (1994), pp. 201-269, Urban Institute Press.
  16. H.F. Ladd, Measuring Disparities in the Fiscal Condition of Local Governments, in The Challenge of Fiscal Equalization, edited by John Anderson (1994), pp. 21-55, Praeger Press.
  17. H.F. Ladd, Comments on Wallace E. Oates, "Federalism and Government Finance, in Modern Public Finance, edited by J. Quigley and E. Smolensky (1994), Harvard University Press.
  18. H.F. Ladd, Fiscal Consequences for U.S. Central Cities of the Changing Urban Form, in Urban Change in the U.S. and Western Europe: Comparative Analysis and Policy, edited by Anita Summers and Lanfranco Senn (1993), pp. 321-370, Urban Institute Press (Slightly updated for second edition, 1999.).
  19. H.F. Ladd, Effects of Population Growth on Local Spending and Taxes, in Structuring Direct Aid: People Versus Places, edited by R.D. Norton (1993), pp. 181-224, JAI Press, Research in Urban Economics, vol. 9.
  20. H.F. Ladd, Comments on John M. Quigley and Daniel L. Rubinfeld, 'Public Choices in Public Higher Education', in Studies of Supply and Demand in Higher Education, edited by Charles Clotfelter and Michael Rothchild (1993), University of Chicago Press.
  21. H.F. Ladd, Sales Taxes in Arizona, in State and local Finance for the 1990s: A Case Study of Arizona, edited by Therese J. McGuire and Dana Wolfe Naimark (1991), University of Arizona Press.
  22. H.F. Ladd, Big City Finances in the New Era of Fiscal Federalism, in The Changing Face of Fiscal Federalism, edited by Thomas R. Swartz and John E. Peck (1990), pp. 127-151, London, England: M.E. Sharpe, Inc..
  23. H.F. Ladd, User Charges -- Not Just Another Revenue Source, in The Role of User Charges, edited by Thomas D. Hopkins (1990), pp. 47-55, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.
  24. H.F. Ladd, The Meaning of Balance for State-Local Tax Systems, in The Unfinished Agenda for State Tax Reform, edited by Steven D. Gold (1989), National Conference of State Legislatures.
  25. H.F. Ladd with Ronald Ferguson, State Economic Renaissance, "Pioneering State Economic Strategy," and "Creating the Future, in The New Economic Role of American States: Strategies and Institutions for a Competitive World Economy, edited by R. Scott Fosler (1988), Oxford University Press.
  26. H.F. Ladd, Comments on Charles R. Hulton and Robert M. Schwab, "Incoming Originating in The State and Local Sector, in Fiscal Federalism, edited by Harvey Rosen (1988), University of Chicago Press.
  27. H.F. Ladd with Dana R. Weist, State and local Tax Systems: Balance Among Taxes vs. Balance Among Policy Goals, in The Quest for Balance in State-Local Revenue Systems, edited by Frederick D. Stocker (1987), Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
  28. H.F. Ladd with Ronald Ferguson, Measuring the Fiscal Capacity of U.S. Cities, in Measuring Fiscal Capacity, edited by Clyde Reeves (1986), Oelgeschlager, Gunn, and Hain, Inc..
  29. H.F. Ladd, Comments on Steven G. Craig and Robert P. Inman, "Education, Welfare, and the 'New Federalism': State Budgeting in a Federalist Public Economy, in Studies in State and Local Public Finance, edited by Harvey Rosen (1986), University of Chicago Press.
  30. H.F. Ladd, The Massachusetts Experience, in States Under Stress: A Report on the Finances of Massachusetts, Michigan, Texas, and California, edited by Peggy B. Musgrave (February, 1985), Berkeley, CA: Institute of Governmental Studies (paper presented at the conference on the Present Condition and Future Prospects of State-Local Finances, University of California, Santa Cruz, April 1983.).
  31. H.F. Ladd with Julie Boatright Wilson, Proposition 2 1/2: Explaining the Vote, in Research in Urban Policy, edited by T. Clark, vol. 1 (1985), JAI Press.
  32. H.F. Ladd, Federal Aid to State and Local Governments, in Federal Budget Policy in the 1980's, edited by J. Palmer and G. Mills (1984), Urban Institute Press.
  33. H.F. Ladd with Herman Leonard, Taxation and the Poor, in The State and the Poor in the 1980's, edited by Manuel Carballo and Mary Jo Bane (1984), Auburn House.
  34. H.F. Ladd with Howard Bloom and John Yinger, Are Property Taxes Capitalized into House Values?, in Local Provision of Public Services: The Tiebout Model After Twenty-Five Years, edited by George R. Zodrow (1983), Academic Press.
  35. H.F. Ladd, Financing Services in the Federal System, in Federalism: Making the System Work: Alternatives for the 1980's no. 6 (1982), Center for National Policy, Washington, D.C..
  36. H.F. Ladd, Municipal Expenditures and the Rate of Population Change, in Cities Under Stress: The Fiscal Crisis of Urban America, edited by R.W. Burchell and D. Listokin (1980), New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research.
  37. H.F. Ladd, Tax Policy Considerations Underlying Preferential Tax Treatment of Open Space and Agricultural Land, in Property Tax Preferences for Agricultural Land, edited by N.A. Roberts and H.J. Brown (1980), Montclair: NJ: Allanheld, Osman & Co, Inc..
  38. H.F. Ladd, Discussion of Howard A. Chernick, "An Economic Model of the Distribution of Project Grants, in Fiscal Federalism and Grants-in-Aid, COUPE Papers on Public Economics, edited by P. Miezkowski and W. Oakland (1979), Washington, DC: The Urban Institute.
  39. H.F. Ladd, Male-Female Differences in Pre-College Economic, in Perspectives on Economic Education, edited by Donald R. Wentworth, W. Lee Hansen, and Sharryl H. Hawke (March, 1977), Joint Council on Economic Education.
  40. H.F. Ladd, Municipal Expenditures and the Composition of the Property Tax Base, in Property Taxation, Land Use and Public Trends (TRED8), edited by Arthur D. Lynn (1976), Madison: University of Wisconsin Press (Paper presented at Taxation, Resources, and Economic Development Conference, October 1973.).
  41. H.F. Ladd, The Role of the Property Tax: A Reassessment, in Board Based Taxes: New Options and Sources, edited by R.A. Musgrave (1973), John Hopkins University Press (A supplementary paper of the Committee for Economic Development. Reprinted in Oliver Oldman and Ferdinand P. Schoettle, State and Local Taxes and Finance: Text, Problems and Cases (Mineola, NY: The Foundation Press, Inc., 1974), pp. 348-386.).

NBER Working Papers

  1. H.F. Ladd, with Charles Clotfelter and Jacob Vigdor, "Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement in High School: A Cross Subject Analysis with Student Fixed Effects.", Working Paper 142787 (June, 2007).
  2. H.F. Ladd, with Charles Clotfelter and Jacob Vigdor, How and why do teacher credentials matter for student achievement?, Working Paper 142786 (2007).
  3. H.F. Ladd, with Charles Clotfelter and Jacob Vigdor, Teacher-Student Matching and the Assessment of Teacher Effectiveness, Working Paper 11936 (Fall 2006).
  4. H.F. Ladd with Charles Clotfelter and Jacob Vigdor, Federal Oversight, Local Control, and the Specter of 'Resegregation' in Southern Schools, Working Paper 11086 (Summer 2006).
  5. H.F. Ladd with Charles Clotfelter, Elizabeth Glennie and Jacob Vigdor, Would Higher Salaries Keep Teachers in High-Poverty Schools? Evidence from a Policy Intervention in North Carolina, Working Paper 12285 (June 2006).
  6. H.F. Ladd with Charles Clotfelter and Jacob Vigdor, The Academic Achievement Gap in Grades 3 to 8, Working Paper 12207 (May, 2006).

Book Reviews

  1. H.F. Ladd, Review of two books on public sector management in New Zealand, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 24 no. 1 (2005), pp. 193-196.
  2. H.F. Ladd, Review of Review of The Price of Federalism by Paul Peterson, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 15 no. 3 (Summer, 1996), pp. 469-472.
  3. H.F. Ladd, Review of Ester Fuchs, Mayors and Money, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (1993).
  4. H.F. Ladd, Review of John M. Quigley and Daniel L. Rubinfeld, eds., American Domestic Priorities: An Economic Appraisal in Journal of Economic Literature (September, 1986).
  5. H.F. Ladd, Review of George Break, ed., State and local Finance: The Pressures of the 1980's, Journal of Economic Literature (1986).
  6. H.F. Ladd, Review of John F. Due and John L. Mikesell, Sales Taxation: State and Local Structure and Administration, Municipal Finance Officers Association, Resources in Review (January, 1984).

Published Policy Briefs and Comments

  1. H.F. Ladd, Public and Private School Competition and U.S. Fiscal Federalism., in G.K. Ingram and Y Hong, eds. Fiscal Decentralization and Land Use Policies. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. (2008).
  2. H.F. Ladd, Rethinking the Way We Hold Schools Accountable, Opinion piece, Education Week. (Also reprinted in the Durham Herald Sun.) (2008).
  3. H.F. Ladd, Opinion pice on education policy and the presidential election, Durham Herald Sun (2008).
  4. H.F. Ladd, Policy Brief on Accountability in North Carolina, Education Finance and Organization Structure in New York Schools, Symposium Proceedings (2004), pp. 161-176, Education Finance Research Consortium.
  5. H.F. Ladd, Comments on paper by Joseph Cordes, in City Taxes, City Spending: Essays in Honor of Dick Netzer, edited by Amy Ellen Schwartz (2004), Edward Elgar Press.
  6. H.F. Ladd, Comments on paper of school vouchers by Caroline Hoxby, Swedish Economic Review (Fall, 2003).
  7. H.F. Ladd, Self-Governing Schools and Accountability in New Zealand, Prospects (a publication of UNESCO) (2001) (published in many different languages.).
  8. H.F. Ladd, Comments on Thomas Kane and Douglas Staiger, "Volatility in Test Scores: Implications for Test Based Accountability Systems, edited by Diane Ravitch, Brookings Papers on Education Policy (2001).
  9. H.F. Ladd with Edward Fiske, The Empty Aisles of Marketplace Reform, The School Administrator (November 2000).
  10. H.F. Ladd with Edward Fiske, A Level Playing Field: What We Can Learn from the New Zealand School Reform?, American Educator (Fall 2000).
  11. H.F. Ladd with Edward Fiske, When Schools Compete: Lessons Learned From New Zealand's Experiments with Market-Based Reforms, Rethinking Schools (Summer 2000).
  12. H.F. Ladd, How School Districts Respond to Fiscal Constraint, Selected Papers in School Finance, 1996 (1998), National Center for Education Statistics.
  13. H.F. Ladd, Comments on chapter by Tom Loveless, edited by Diane Ravitch, Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 1997 (1997).
  14. H.F. Ladd, Fiscal Disparities and Fiscal Equalization, in entries for the Encyclopedia of Taxation (1997), National Tax Association and the Urban Institute.
  15. H.F. Ladd, Testimony on HR 3467 "Saving Our Children: The American Community Renewal Act of 1996 (Tuesday, July 30, 1996) (Hearings sponsored by the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means and the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families of the Committee on Economic and Education Opportunities.).
  16. H.F. Ladd, Comments on paper by Garrett Mandeville on South Carolina's school incentive program, Midwest Approaches to School Reform (1995), Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
  17. H.F. Ladd, The Tax Expenditure Concept After 25 Years, Proceedings of the 86th Annual Conference (NTA) (1995), pp. 50-57 (Long version. Presidential address to the National Tax Association, delivered in Charleston, South Carolina, November 1994.).
  18. H.F. Ladd with John Yinger, Economic Change and Fiscal Health: Designing Federal Aid for our Most Troubled Central Cities (May, 1992) (Prepared for the Senate Task Force on Community and Urban Revitalization.).
  19. H.F. Ladd, Puerto Rican Statehood: A Precondition to Sound Economic Growth (May 17, 1990) (written testimony prepared for the Senate Finance committee hearing on S. 712.).
  20. H.F. Ladd with John Yinger, Measuring the Fiscal Capacity of U.S. Cities, Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, Measuring State Fiscal Capacity: Alternative Methods and Their Uses, vol. M-150 (September, 1986), pp. 177-181, Washingon, DC.
  21. H.F. Ladd, Comments on George Zodrow, Optimal Tax Reform: Property Tax Equalization, "National Tax Association - Tax Institute of America, Proceedings of Seventy-Third Annual Conference (November, 1980).
  22. H.F. Ladd, Local Public Expenditures and the Composition of the Property Tax Base, National Tax Association - Tax Institute of America, Proceedings of Sixty-Seventh Annual Conference (1974).

Papers Accepted

  1. H.F. Ladd, Would Higher Salaries Keep Teachers in High Poverty Schools? Evidence from a Policy Intervention in North Carolina., Journal of Public Economics, vol. 92 no. 5-6 (April, 2008), pp. 1352-1370.

Papers In Preparation

  1. H.F. Ladd, Clara Muschkin, Options for research access to state education administrative data: The North Carolina Education Research Data Center (Under revision for publication).
  2. H.F. Ladd, Teacher Effects: What Do We Know?, Web based publication (Forthcoming).
  3. H.F. Ladd, Charles T. Clotfelter, Jacob L. Vigdor, Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement in High School: A Cross-Subject Analysis with Student Fixed Effects (Under revision for publication).
  4. H.F. Ladd, Charles T. Clotfelter, Jacob L. Vigdor, Working conditions, school characteristics and teacher mobility: Evidence from North Carolina (Under revision for Journal).
  5. H.F. Ladd, Douglas Lee Lauen, Status versus Growth: The Distributional Effects of School Accountability Policies (Under revision for journal).
  6. H.F. Ladd, with Charles Clotfelter and Jacob Vigdor, Are Teacher Absences Worth Worrying About?  (Paper presented at the 2006 fall APPAM meeting - Under review for publication..).
  7. H.F. Ladd, Reflections on Equity, Adequacy and Weighted Student Funding, Education Finance and Policy  (Under revision for publication.).
  8. H.F. Ladd, Robert Bifulco, and Stephen Ross, Public School Choice and Integration: Evidence from Durham, N.C. (2007) (Under review for publication.).
  9. H.F. Ladd, with Charles Clotfelter and Jacob Vigdor, Teacher Mobility: Enemy of Equity?  (Draft June 2007. Presented at the Fall,, 2007 APPAM meetings..).

Other

  1. H.F. Ladd with Charles T. Clotfelter, and Jacob L. Vigdor, Teacher Quality and Public Policy (2008) (Final report to the Spencer Foundation for research grant..).
  2. H.F. Ladd, Commentary on paper by Thomas Nechyba (2008) (Lincoln Institute volume on Fiscal Decentralization (forthcoming)..).
  3. H.F. Ladd, Policy as Resource Allocation: Commentary (2007) (The State of Education Policy Research (D.K. Cohen, S.H.Fuhrman, and Fritz Mosher eds.) Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007, pp. 179-186..).
  4. H.F. Ladd with David Figlio, Effects of Accountability on Student Achievement (2006) (Paper prepared for the US Department of Education, Section 1503 evaluation of No Child Left Behind and for a volume to be published by the Urban Institute.).
  5. H.F. Ladd with Robert Bifulco, Charter Schools in North Carolina, National Center on School Choice, vol. Conference , Vanderbuilt University.
  6. H.F. Ladd, Reflections on Equity, Adequacy, and Weighted Student Funding (2006) (Paper prepared for a special session at the 2006 Annual APPAM session designed to bring school finance resarchers together with philosophers. We are working on getting the three papers published as a group with a commentary by a philosopher..).
  7. H.F. Ladd with Edward B. Fiske, Racial Equity and Education: How Far Has South Africa Come? (January, 2005).
  8. H.F. Ladd with Edward B. Fiske, Financing Schools in Post Apartheid South Africa: Initial Steps Toward Fiscal Equity (January 2005).
  9. H.F. Ladd with Edward Fiske, Learning from South Africa, Commentary in Ed Week (mid March 2005).
  10. H.F. Ladd with Edward Fiske, Two op-eds published in South African newspapers related to our book on South Africa (2005) (One addresses school fees in South Africa and appeared in the Cape Times in mid May 2005. The other was on measuring achievement and appeared in the Mail and Guardian Supplement, August 19, 2005.).
  11. H.F. Ladd with Charles Clotfelter and Jacob Vigdor, Teacher Quality and Minority Achievement Gaps (October, 2004) (Paper based on final report to the Spencer Foundation..).
  12. H.F. Ladd with Robert Bifulco, Two op-eds on charter schools (Fall, 2004) (one focused on NC in the Raleigh News and Observer and the other with a national focus in the Saint Paul Pioneer Press, fall 2004.).
  13. H.F. Ladd with Charles Clotfelter and Jacob Vigdor, Teacher Quality and Minority Achievement Gaps (submitted June 2004) (Paper presented for the fall, 2004 APPAM meetings, based on the final report to the Spencer Foundation.).
  14. H.F. Ladd with Charles Clotfelter, Elizabeth Glennie, and Jacob Vigdor, The North Carolina Math/Science/Special Education (MSSE) $1,800 Teacher Bonus Program An Initial Evaluation (2004) (Final report to the North Carolina, Department of Public Instruction.).
  15. H.F. Ladd, Policy memo on School Vouchers - Child and Family Policy Center (2003).
  16. H.F. Ladd, School Vouchers: A Critical View, Journal of Economic Perspectives (November 2002).
  17. H.F. Ladd, Report on Tax and Fiscal Aspects of Territorial Development in the Helsinki Region (October, 2001) (Prepared for the OECD Territorial Review of the Greater Helsinki Region.).
  18. H.F. Ladd wit Edward Fiske, Does Competition Improve Teaching and Learning: Evidence from New Zealand (April, 2001) (Paper presented at the AERA meeting. Sanford Institute working paper and revised version published in Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis.).
  19. H.F. Ladd, Market-Based Reforms in Education (2001) (commissioned by the Urban Seminar on Creating Change in Urban Education as part of the Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program at Harvard University, directed by William Julius Wilson. (Revised version published as a book by the Economic Policy Institute.).
  20. H.F. Ladd with Edward B. Fiske, Limits of Vouchers Exposed, Philadelphia Inquirer (September 25, 2000).
  21. H.F. Ladd with Edward B. Fiske, Vouchers Have Been Tried - and Failed, Los Angeles Times (October 18, 2000).
  22. H.F. Ladd with James Hamilton, Cause for Confusion and N.C.'s Own Ballot, The News and Observer (November 11, 2000).
  23. H.F. Ladd with Edward Fiske, A Distant Laboratory: Learning Cautionary Lessons from New Zealand's Schools, Education Week (May 17, 2000).
  24. H.F. Ladd with Edward Fiske, The Invisible Hand as Schoolmaster, The America Prospect (May 22, 2000).
  25. H.F. Ladd with Edward Fiske, A Cautionary Tale from New Zealand, The New York Times (Education Life Section) (August 6, 2000).
  26. H.F. Ladd, School-Based Accountability and Incentive Programs (January, 1998) (Paper commissioned by the National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Education Finance.).
  27. H.F. Ladd, Local Tax and Land Use Policy: A Survey (Fall, 1992) (prepared for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.).
  28. H.F. Ladd, Land and Tax Policy (August, 1992) (Paper preparred for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Working Paper.).
  29. H.F. Ladd with Andrew Reschovsky, Daniel Salomone, and John Yinger, Policy Analysis and the Design of State Aid Formuas: A Case Study of Minnesota (October, 1991) (Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of Policy Analysis and Management, Bethesda, Maryland.).
  30. H.F. Ladd with Andrew Reschovsky and John Yinger, Measuring the Fiscal Condition of Cities in Minnesota (April, 1991) (Final report submitted to the Legislative Commission on Planning and Fiscal Policy.).
  31. H.F. Ladd with J. Tomas Hexner, Glenn Jenkins, and K. Russell LaMotte, Puerto Rican Statehood: A Precondition to Sound Economic Growth (September, 1990) (Report sponsored by an independent citizen's group in Puerto Rico. (Hex Inc., Cambridge, MA). Second edition, February 1993.).
  32. H.F. Ladd with Dana R. Weist, Sales Taxes and User Charges in Arizona Local Governments' (August, 1989) (Research Paper Presented for the Arizona Joint Select Committee on State Revenues and Expenditures. (Chapter 20 in Final Report, 1989.).
  33. H.F. Ladd, Big City Finances (June, 1989) (prepared for the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and financed by the Ford Foundation.).
  34. H.F. Ladd with Dana R. Weist, The Arizona General Sales Tax (April, 1989) (Research Paper Presented for the Arizona Joint Select Committee on State Revenues and Expenditures. (Chapter 9 in Final Report, 1989.).
  35. H.F. Ladd with Claire Christopherson, Demand for Local Public Services: Evidence from Survey Data (1989) (financed by the National Science Foundation.).
  36. H.F. Ladd with Ronald F. Ferguson, Economic Performance and Economic Development Policy in Massachusetts (1986) (final report for the Committee for Economic Development. Available as John F. Kennedy School of Government, State, Local, and Intergovernmental Center, Discussion Paper D86-2.).
  37. H.F. Ladd with John Yinger and others, The Changing Economic and Fiscal Condition of Cities (1986) (Final Report to Department of Housing and Urban Development (462 pages.).
  38. H.F. Ladd with Katherine L. Bradbury and Andrew Reschovsky, Policy Analysis and the Distribution of State Aid to Local Governments: A Case Study of Massachusetts (October, 1983) (paper prepared for the 1983 APPAM Research Conference, Philadelphia, PA.).
  39. H.F. Ladd with Arnold Howitt and Herman Leonard, Services from Public Capital: The Outlook for Boston's Physical Infrastructure (October, 1983) (MIT-Harvard Joint Center Working Paper.).
  40. H.F. Ladd (with others), State Aid Distribution Formulas: The Need for More Equalization, Impact 2 1/2 Newsletter (September, 1983).
  41. H.F. Ladd with others, State Aid and the High Cost of Local Public Services in Some Communities: The Need for More Equalization (September, 1983) (MIT-Harvard Joint Center Working Paper, W83- 10.).
  42. H.F. Ladd with Robert Schafer, Discrimination in Mortgage Lending: A Microeconomic Model of Mortgage Terms (February, 1983).
  43. H.F. Ladd, Financing Services in the Federal System (1983) (prepared for a Bunting Institute Colloquium (November 1982), Bunting Institute Working Paper.).
  44. H.F. Ladd with Julie Boatright Wilson, Proposition 2 1/2: Variations in Individual Preferences and Expectations Across Communities (April, 1982) (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Discussion Paper D82-1.).
  45. H.F. Ladd with Katherine L. Bradbury and Claire Christopherson, Proposition 2 1/2: Initial Impacts (1982) (Policy Paper of the Institute of Research on Educational Finance and Governance, Stanford University, 1982. Also available as a working paper of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of MIT and Harvard, 1982.).
  46. H.F. Ladd with Julie Boatright Wilson, Tax Limitation Study (1982) (Final Report to National Institute of Education.).
  47. H.F. Ladd with Julie Boatright Wilson, Proposition 2 1/2: Explaining the Vote (April, 1981) (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Research Report R81-1.).
  48. H.F. Ladd with Howard Bloom and John Yinger, Intrajurisdictional Property Tax Capitalization (August, 1980) (Final Report to Department of Housing and Urban Development.).
  49. H.F. Ladd, What Economics Can Contribute to the Tax Limitation Debate (July, 1980) (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Discussion Paper D80-8.).
  50. H.F. Ladd with Robert Schafer, Equal Credit Opportunity in Mortgage Lending: Summary of Results (June, 1980) (Joint Center for Urban Studies of MIT and Harvard University, Workign Paper No. 65.).
  51. H.F. Ladd with Robert Schafer, Equal Credit Opportunity; Accessibility to Mortgage Funds by Women and Blacks (November, 1979) (final technical report to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, vols. 1 and 2.).
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