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Publications of Helen F. Ladd    :recent first  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

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Books

  1. Schafer, R; Ladd, HF, Discrimination in Mortgage Lending (1981), pp. 407 pages, MIT Press (MA)  [abs]
  2. H.F. Ladd, Tax and Expenditure Limitations (author of introduction and co-editor with Nicolaus Tideman (1981), Urban Institute
  3. H.F. Ladd and 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
  4. H.F. Ladd and 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.)
  5. Ladd, HF; Yinger, J, America's Ailing Cities: Fiscal Health and the Design of Urban Policy (May, 1991), pp. 348 pages, JHU Press, ISBN 9780801842443  [abs]
  6. H.F. Ladd, Holding Schools Accountable: Performance-Based Reform in Education (editor, author of introduction and coauthor of two chapters) (1996), Brookings Institution
  7. 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.)
  8. Ladd, HF, The Challenge of Fiscal Disparities for State and Local Governments (1999), pp. 477 pages, Edward Elgar Pub  [abs]
  9. H.F. Ladd, The Challenge of Fiscal Disparities for State and Governments: The Selected Essays of Helen F. Ladd (1999), Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
  10. H.F. Ladd, with Janet Hansen and Rosemary A. Chalk, eds, Equity and Adequacy in Education Finance: Issues and Perspectives, National Academy of Sciences Press (January, 1999)
  11. 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)
  12. Edward B. Fiske and Helen F. Ladd, When Schools Compete: A Cautionary Tale (2000), Brookings Institution Press
  13. Fiske, EB; Ladd, HF, When Schools Compete (September, 2001), pp. 342 pages, Brookings Institution Press, ISBN 9780815798491  [abs]
  14. Fiske, EB; Ladd, HF, When Schools Compete (September, 2001), pp. 342 pages, Brookings Institution Press, ISBN 9780815798491  [abs]
  15. Fiske, EB; Ladd, HF, When Schools Compete (September, 2001), pp. 342 pages, Brookings Institution Press, ISBN 9780815798491  [abs]
  16. H.F. Ladd, Market-Based Reforms in Education (February 2002), Economic Policy Institute: Washington, D.C.
  17. Fiske, EB; Ladd, HF, Elusive Equity: Education reform in post-Apartheid New Zealand (2004), pp. 269 pages, Brookings Institution Press, ISBN 9780815728405  [abs]
  18. Edward B. Fiske and Helen F. Ladd, Elusive Equity: Education Reform in Post Apartheid South Africa. (2004), Brookings Institution Press ((Also available as an HSRC press publication, Capetown, South Africa, 2005)..)
  19. Fiske, EB; Ladd, HF, Education equity in an international context, in Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy (January, 2014), pp. 297-313, New York and London: Routledge Press, ISBN 9780415838016 (Updated version of chapter 16 to be included in the revised edition of Helen F. Ladd and Margaret Goertz (eds.) [doi]  [abs]

NBER Working Papers

  1. H.F. Ladd with Charles Clotfelter and Jacob Vigdor, The Academic Achievement Gap in Grades 3 to 8, Working Paper 12207 (May, 2006) [online]
  2. 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) [online]
  3. 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) [online]  [author's comments]
  4. H.F. Ladd, with Charles Clotfelter and Jacob Vigdor, Teacher-Student Matching and the Assessment of Teacher Effectiveness, Working Paper 11936 (Fall 2006) [online]  [author's comments]
  5. Clotfelter, C; Ladd, H; Vigdor, J, How and Why Do Teacher Credentials Matter for Student Achievement?, Working Paper 142786 (2007) [w12828]  [abs] [author's comments]
  6. 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)  [author's comments]
  7. Clotfelter, CT; Ladd, HF; Vigdor, JL, Algebra for 8th Graders: Evidence on its Effects from 10 North Carolina Districts (December, 2012)  [abs]
  8. Ladd, HF; Clotfelter, CT; Holbein, JB, The growing segmentation of the charter school sector in North Carolina (October, 2017), pp. 536-563, MIT Press - Journals [doi]  [abs]
  9. Clotfelter, CT; Hemelt, SW; Ladd, HF, MULTIFACETED AID FOR LOW-INCOME STUDENTS AND COLLEGE OUTCOMES: EVIDENCE FROM NORTH CAROLINA (January, 2018), pp. 278-303, WILEY [doi]  [abs]

Book Reviews

  1. 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)
  2. H.F. Ladd, Review of George Break, ed., State and local Finance: The Pressures of the 1980's, Journal of Economic Literature (1986)
  3. 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)
  4. H.F. Ladd, Review of Ester Fuchs, Mayors and Money, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (1993)
  5. H.F. Ladd, Review of Norton Grubb, The Money Myth: School Resources, Outcomes and Equity, The Journal of Economic Literature (2010) (March.)

Journal Articles

  1. Ladd, HF, Local Education Expenditures, Fiscal Capacity, and the Composition of the Property Tax Base, National Tax Journal (June, 1975)
  2. Ladd, HF, Statewide Taxation of Commercial and Industrial Property for Education, National Tax Journal (June, 1976)
  3. Ladd, HF, An Economic Evaluation of State Limitations on Local Taxing and Spending Powers, National Tax Journal (March, 1978)
  4. Ladd, HF, State Limitations on Local Taxing and Spending Powers: A Response, National Tax Journal (December, 1978)
  5. Ladd, HF, Municipal expenditure and the rate of population change (revised version) ( USA)., Harvard University, Department of City and Regional Planning, Urban Planning Policy Analysis & Administration, Discussion Paper no. D79-6 (January, 1979)  [abs]
  6. Ladd, HF, 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.)
  7. Ladd, HF, Municipal expenditure and the rate of population change (revised version) ( USA)., Harvard University, Department of City and Regional Planning, Urban Planning Policy Analysis & Administration, Discussion Paper no. D79-6 (December, 1979)  [abs]
  8. Bradbury, HFLWKL; Christopherson, C, Proposition 2 1/2: Initial Impacts, Part I, New England Economic Review (1982)
  9. 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.)
  10. Bloom, HS; Ladd, HF, Property tax revaluation and tax levy growth, Journal of Urban Economics, vol. 11 no. 1 (Winter, 1982), pp. 73-84, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0094-1190 [doi]  [abs]
  11. Ladd, HF, Equal Credit Opportunity: Women and Mortgage Credit, American Economic Review (May, 1982)
  12. Wilson, HFLWJB, Why Voters Support Tax Limitations: Evidence from Massachusetts' Proposition 2 1/2, National Tax Journal (June, 1982)
  13. Doolittle, HFLWFC, Which Level of Government Should Assist Poor People?, National Tax Journal (September, 1982)
  14. Howitt, HFLWA; Leonard, H; Weeks, A, Physical Infrastructure in Boston, Urban Resources, vol. 1 no. 2 (Fall, 1983), pp. 5-11
  15. Wilson, HFLWJB, Who Supports Tax Limitations: Evidence from Massachusetts' Proposition 2 1/2, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 2 no. 2 (Winter, 1983), pp. 256-279, JSTOR [doi]  [abs]
  16. Bradbury, HFLWKL; Perrault, M; Reschovsky, A; Yinger, J, State Aid to Offset Fiscal Disparities Across Communities, National Tax Journal (June, 1984)
  17. Bradbury, HFLWKL, Changes in the Revenue-Raising Capacity of U.S. Cities: 1970-1982, New England Economic Review (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.)
  18. Wilson, HFLWJB, Education and Tax Limitations: Evidence from Massachusetts' Proposition 2 1/2, Journal of Education Finance (Winter, 1985)
  19. Bradbury, HFLWKL, City Property Taxes: The Effects of Economic Change and Competitive Pressures, New England Economic Review (1987)
  20. Bradbury, HFLWK, City Taxes and City Property Tax Bases, National Tax Journal (December, 1988)
  21. 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)
  22. YINGER, J; LADD, HF, THE DETERMINANTS OF STATE ASSISTANCE TO CENTRAL CITIES, NATIONAL TAX JOURNAL, vol. 42 no. 4 (December, 1989), pp. 413-428, NATL TAX ASSOC, ISSN 0028-0283 [Gateway.cgi]
  23. Yinger, HFLWJ, The Determinants of State Assistance to Central Citiis, National Tax Journal, vol. XLII no. 4 (1990), pp. 413-428, ISSN 0028-0283 [Gateway.cgi]
  24. Ladd, HF, State Assistance to Local Governments: Changes During the 1980s, American Economic Review, vol. 80 no. 2 (May, 1990), pp. 171-175, AMER ECON ASSN
  25. Ladd, HF, Introduction of Symposium on Managing Local Development, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 9 no. 4 (Fall, 1990), pp. 484-486, JSTOR [doi]
  26. Ladd, HF; Wheaton, W, Causes and consequences of the changing urban form. Introduction, Regional Science and Urban Economics, vol. 21 no. 2 (January, 1991), pp. 157-162, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0166-0462 (Special issue edited by Helen F. Ladd and William Wheaton.) [doi]
  27. Ladd, HF, Property tax revaluation and tax levy growth revisited, Journal of Urban Economics, vol. 30 no. 1 (January, 1991), pp. 83-99, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0094-1190 [doi]
  28. Ladd, HF, 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, ISSN 0028-0283 [Gateway.cgi]
  29. LADD, HF, THE STATE AID DECISION - CHANGES IN STATE AID TO LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, 1982-87, NATIONAL TAX JOURNAL, vol. 44 no. 4 (December, 1991), pp. 477-496, NATL TAX ASSOC, ISSN 0028-0283 [Gateway.cgi]
  30. 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
  31. Ladd, HF, Population growth, density and the costs of providing public services, Urban Studies, vol. 29 no. 2 (January, 1992), pp. 273-295, SAGE Publications [doi]  [abs]
  32. Ladd, HF, Mimicking of Local Tax Burdens Among Neighboring Counties, Public Finance Quarterly, vol. 20 no. 4 (October, 1992), pp. 450-467, SAGE Publications [doi]  [abs]
  33. Ladd, HF; Fuchs, ER, Mayors and Money: Fiscal Policy in New York and Chicago, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 12 no. 3 (1993), pp. 608-608, JSTOR, ISSN 0276-8739 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  34. Ladd, HF, 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, JSTOR [doi]
  35. Ladd, HF, Fiscal impacts of local population growth: A conceptual and empirical analysis, Regional Science and Urban Economics, vol. 24 no. 6 (January, 1994), pp. 661-686, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0166-0462 [doi]  [abs]
  36. Yinger, HFLWJ, The Case for Equalizing Aid, National Tax Journal, vol. XLVII no. 1 (March, 1994), pp. 211-224, ISSN 0028-0283 [Gateway.cgi]
  37. LADD, HF; YINGER, J, THE CASE FOR EQUALIZING AID, NATIONAL TAX JOURNAL, vol. 47 no. 1 (March, 1994), pp. 211-224, NATL TAX ASSN, ISSN 0028-0283 [Gateway.cgi]
  38. Ladd, HF, 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
  39. Gentry, HFLWW, State Tax Structure and Multiple Policy Objectives, National Tax Journal, vol. 47 no. 4 (December, 1994), pp. 747-772, NATL TAX ASSN
  40. Harris, HFLWE, Statewide Taxation of Nonresidential Property for Education, Journal of Education Finance (Summer, 1995), pp. 103-122
  41. Ladd, HF, 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. Ladd, HF, The price of federalism by Paul E. Peterson. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1995, 231 pp., $36.95 cloth, $15.95 paper, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 15 no. 3 (Summer, 1996), pp. 469-472
  43. Ladd, HF, School District Responses to Fiscal Constraints (May, 1996)  [abs]
  44. Ladd, HF, The price of federalism by Paul E. Peterson. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1995, 231 pp., $36.95 cloth, $15.95 paper, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 15 no. 3 (June, 1996), pp. 469-472, Wiley, ISSN 0276-8739 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  45. Ladd, JTHWHF, Biased Ballots? The Impact of Ballot Structure on North Carolina Elections in 1992, Public Choice, vol. 87 no. 3-4 (Summer, 1996), pp. 259-280, Springer Nature [doi]  [abs]
  46. Ladd, HF, Catalyst for Learning: Recognition and Reward Programs in the Public Schools, The Brookings Review (Summer, 1996), pp. 14-17
  47. Ladd, HF; Ludwig, J, Federal Housing Assistance, Residential Relocation, and Educational Opportunities: Evidence from Baltimore, American Economic Review, vol. 87 no. 2 (May, 1997), pp. 272-277
  48. Ladd, HF, Evidence on Discrimination in Mortgage Lending, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 12 no. 2 (January, 1998), pp. 41-62, American Economic Association [doi]
  49. Ludwig, HFLWJ, 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)
  50. Ladd, HF; Ludwig, J, MTO: A residential relocation demonstration program in the United States, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, vol. 14 no. 1 (January, 1999), pp. 61-79, ISSN 1566-4910 [doi]  [abs]
  51. Ladd, HF, The Dallas school accountability and incentive program: An evaluation of its impacts on student outcomes, Economics of Education Review, vol. 18 no. 1 (January, 1999), pp. 1-16, Elsevier BV [doi]  [abs]
  52. Ludwig, HFLWJ; Duncan, G, 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.)
  53. Ladd, HF; Fiske, EB, 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, WILEY [doi]  [abs]
  54. Ladd, HF, School-based educational accountability systems: The promise and the pitfalls, National Tax Journal, vol. 54 no. 2 (January, 2001), pp. 385-400, National Tax Association [doi]
  55. Fiske, EB; Ladd, HF, Self-governing schools and accountability in New Zealand, Prospects, vol. 31 no. 4 (January, 2001), pp. 537-552 (published in many different languages.) [doi]
  56. Ladd, HF, School Based Educational Accountability Systems: The Promise and the Pitfalls, National Tax Journal, vol. LIV no. 2 (June, 2001), pp. 385-400
  57. Ladd, HF; Murray, SE, Intergenerational conflict reconsidered: County demographic structure and the demand for public education, Economics of Education Review, vol. 20 no. 4 (August, 2001), pp. 343-357, Elsevier BV [doi]  [abs]
  58. Johnson, HFLWM; Ludwig, J, The Benefits and Costs of Residenital Mobility Programs for the Poor, Housing Studies, vol. 17 no. 1 (2002), pp. 125-138, Informa UK Limited [doi]
  59. Walsh, HFLWR, Implementing Value-Added Measures of School Effectiveness: Getting the Incentives Right, Economics of Education Review, vol. 21 no. 1 (February, 2002), pp. 1-17, Elsevier BV [doi]
  60. Ladd, HF, School vouchers: A critical view, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 16 no. 4 (September, 2002), pp. 3-24, American Economic Association [repository], [doi]
  61. Ladd, HF; Zelli, A, School-based accountability in North Carolina: The responses of school principals, Educational Administration Quarterly, vol. 38 no. 4 (October, 2002), pp. 494-529, SAGE Publications [doi]  [abs]
  62. H.F. Ladd, School Vouchers: A Critical View, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 16 no. 4 (Fall 2002), pp. 3-24 (Invited paper.) [pdf]
  63. Ladd, HF; Fiske, EB, Does competition improve teaching and learning? Evidence from New Zealand, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, vol. 25 no. 1 (Spring, 2003), pp. 97-112, American Educational Research Association (AERA) [doi]  [abs]
  64. Clotfelter, CT; Ladd, HF; Vigdor, JL, Segregation and Resegregation in North Carolina's Public School Classrooms, North Carolina Law Review, vol. 81 no. 4 (May, 2003), pp. 1463-1511
  65. Clotfelter, CT; Ladd, HF; Vigdor, JL; Diaz, RA, Do 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 (March, 2004), pp. 251-271, WILEY, ISSN 0276-8739 (Winner of Raymond Vernon Prize for the best article in volume 23.) [doi]  [abs]
  66. Ladd, HF, Comment: The partially subsidized muse: Estimating the value and incidence of public support received by nonprofit arts organizations, City Taxes, City Spending: Essays in Honor of Dick Netzer (December, 2004), pp. 241-243, Edward Elgar Publishing [doi]
  67. Ladd, HF, Public sector management in New Zealand: Lessons and challenges, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 24 no. 1 (2005), pp. 193-196, WILEY [doi]
  68. Clotfelter, C; Ladd, H; Vigdor, J, Who Teaches Whom? Race and the Distribution of Novice Teachers, Economics of Education Review, vol. 24 no. 4 (2005), pp. 377-392 [pdf], [doi]  [abs]
  69. Clotfelter, CT; Ladd, HF; Vigdor, JL, Federal Oversight, Local Control, and the Specter of "Resegregation" in Southern Schools (January, 2005)
  70. Bifulco, R; Ladd, HF, Results from the tar heel state, Education Next, vol. 5 no. 4 (September, 2005), pp. 60-66, ISSN 1539-9672 [repository]
  71. Bifulco, HFLWR, Results [about charter schools] from the Tar Heel State, Education Next (Fall, 2005), pp. 60-66
  72. Clotfelter, C; Ladd, H; Vigdor., J, Federal Oversight, Local Control, and the Specter of 'Resegregation' in Southern, American Law & Economics Review, vol. 8 no. 2 (Summer, 2006), pp. 1-43, ISSN 1465-7252 [repository], [doi]  [abs]
  73. Clotfelter, C; Ladd, H; Vigdor., J, Teacher-Student Matching and the Assessment of Teacher Effectiveness, Journal of Human Resources, vol. 41 no. 4 (Fall, 2006), pp. 778-820, ISSN 0022-166X [online]  [abs]
  74. Bifulco, R; Ladd, HF, The Impacts of Charter Schools on Student Achievement: Evidence from North Carolina, Education Finance and Policy, vol. 1 no. 1 (March, 2006), pp. 50-90, MIT Press - Journals, ISSN 1557-3060 [doi]  [abs]
  75. Fiske, E; Ladd, H, Racial equity in education: How far has South Africa come?, Special Issue on Education Finance, edited by Jonathan Jansen, Perspectives in Education, vol. 24 no. 2 (June, 2006), pp. 95-108, ISSN 0258-2236  [abs]
  76. Bifulco, R; Ladd, HF, Institutional change and coproduction of public services: The effect of charter schools on parental involvement, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, vol. 16 no. 4 (October, 2006), pp. 553-576, Oxford University Press (OUP), ISSN 1053-1858 [repository], [doi]  [abs]
  77. Ladd, HF; Figlio, D, The Economics of School Accountability, International Encyclopedia of Education (2007), pp. 374-379, Elsevier [doi]  [abs]
  78. Ladd, HF, Teacher labor markets in developed countries., The Future of children, vol. 17 no. 1 (January, 2007), pp. 201-217, ISSN 1054-8289 [doi]  [abs]
  79. Clotfelter, CT; Ladd, HF; Vigdor, JL; Wheeler, J, High Poverty Schools and the Distribution of Teachers and Principals, North Carolina Law Review, vol. 85 no. 5 (June, 2007), pp. 1345-1380 [online]
  80. Clotfelter, CT; Ladd, HF; Vigdor, JL, Are Teacher Absences Worth Worrying About in the U.S.? (November, 2007)  [abs]
  81. Clotfelter, CT; Ladd, HF; Vigdor, JL, Teacher credentials and student achievement: Longitudinal analysis with student fixed effects (December, 2007), pp. 673-682, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0272-7757 [doi]  [abs]
  82. Bifulco, R; Ladd, HF, 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, WILEY, ISSN 0276-8739 [doi]  [abs]
  83. Clotfelter, CT; Ladd, HF; Vigdor, JL, School Segregation Under Color-blind Jurisprudence: The Case of North Carolina, Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law, vol. 16 no. 1 (2008)
  84. Ladd, HF, Reflections on Equity, Adequacy, and Weighted Student Funding, Journal of Education Finance and Policy, vol. 3 no. 4 (2008), pp. 402-423, MIT Press - Journals [doi]  [abs]
  85. Ladd, HF; Fiske, EB, Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy, Education Finance and Policy, vol. 3 no. 1 (January, 2008), pp. 149-150, MIT Press - Journals, ISSN 1557-3060 (Official handbook of the American Education Finance Association..) [doi]
  86. Clotfelter, CT; Glennie, EJ; Ladd, HF; Vigdor, JL, Teacher Bonuses and Teacher Retention in Low-Performing Schools, Public Finance Review, vol. 36 no. 1 (January, 2008), pp. 63-87, SAGE Publications, ISSN 1091-1421 [63], [doi]  [abs]
  87. Atkinson, AB; Cnossen, S; Ladd, HF; Mieszkowski, P; Pestieau, P; Samuelson, PA, Commemorating Richard Musgrave (1910-2007), FinanzArchiv, vol. 64 no. 2 (June, 2008), pp. 145-170, Mohr Siebeck, ISSN 0015-2218 [doi]
  88. Clotfelter, C; Glennie, E; Ladd, H; Vigdor, J, 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, Elsevier BV, ISSN 0047-2727 [doi]  [abs]
  89. Cordes, J; Conger, D; Ladd, H; Luger, M, Undergraduate and doctoral education in public policy: What? Why? Why not? Whereto?, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 27 no. 4 (September, 2008), pp. 1009-1026, WILEY, ISSN 0276-8739 [doi]
  90. Ladd, HF, School policies and the test score gap (December, 2008), pp. 289-319  [abs]
  91. 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. 29 (2009)
  92. Bifulco, R; Ladd, HF; Ross, SL, Public school choice and integration evidence from Durham, North Carolina., Social science research, vol. 38 no. 1 (March, 2009), pp. 71-85, ISSN 0049-089X [doi]  [abs]
  93. Clotfelter, CT; Ladd, HF; Vigdor, JL, Are Teacher Absences Worth Worrying About in the United States?, Education Finance and Policy, vol. 4 no. 2 (April, 2009), pp. 115-149, MIT Press - Journals, ISSN 1557-3060 [doi]  [abs]
  94. Bifulco, R; Ladd, HF; Ross, SL, The effects of public school choice on those left behind: Evidence from Durham, North Carolina, Peabody Journal of Education, vol. 84 no. 2 (April, 2009), pp. 130-149, Informa UK Limited, ISSN 0161-956X [doi]  [abs]
  95. Clotfelter, CT; Ladd, HF; Vigdor, JL, The academic achievement gap in grades 3 to 8, Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 91 no. 2 (May, 2009), pp. 398-419, MIT Press - Journals, ISSN 0034-6535 (Also available as NBER working paper #12207.) [doi]  [abs]
  96. Ladd Edward, HF; Fiske, B, The Dutch Experience with Weighted Student Funding: Some Lessons for the U.S., Phi Delta Kappan (2010) (September, pp.49-53.)
  97. Ladd, HF, Education Inspectorate Systems in New Zealand and the Netherlends: ( Policy Brief ), Education Finance and Policy (2010) (5(3)378-392.)
  98. H.F. Ladd, Charles T. Clotfelter, Jacob Vigdor, Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement in High School: A Cross Subject Analysis with Fixed Effects, Journal of Human Resources (2010) (45 (3), 655-681.) [655.full.pdf+html]
  99. Fiske, B; Ladd, HF, The dutch experience with weighted student funding, Phi Delta Kappan, vol. 92 no. 1 (January, 2010), pp. 49-53, SAGE Publications, ISSN 0031-7217 [doi]
  100. Clotfelter, CT; Ladd, HF; Vigdor, JL, Teacher credentials and student achievement in high school: A cross-subject analysis with student fixed effects, Journal of Human Resources, vol. 45 no. 3 (January, 2010), pp. 655-681, University of Wisconsin Press, ISSN 0022-166X [doi]  [abs]
  101. Ladd, HF, The Money Myth: School Resources, Outcomes, and Equity, JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE, vol. 48 no. 1 (March, 2010), pp. 162-166, AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC, ISSN 0022-0515 [Gateway.cgi]
  102. Ladd, HF; Lauen, DL, Status versus growth: The distributional effects of school accountability policies, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 29 no. 3 (June, 2010), pp. 426-450, WILEY, ISSN 0276-8739 (29 (3), 426-450,Also available as a CALDER working paper (caldercenter.org).) [doi]  [abs]
  103. Ladd, HF, Education Inspectorate Systems in New Zealand and the Netherlands, Education Finance and Policy, vol. 5 no. 3 (July, 2010), pp. 378-392, MIT Press - Journals, ISSN 1557-3060 [doi]  [abs]
  104. Ladd, HF, Comment by Helen F. Ladd, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity no. 2 (December, 2010), pp. 200-207, ISSN 0007-2303
  105. H.F. Ladd, Brookings volume (2011) (comments on Dee and Jacob on NCLB.)
  106. Ladd, HF, Teachers' Perceptions of their Working Conditions: How Predictive of Planned and Actual teacher Movement?, Summer Issue, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, vol. 33 no. 2 (June, 2011), pp. 235-261, American Educational Research Association (AERA), ISSN 0162-3737 [doi]  [abs]
  107. Ladd, HF; Fiske, EB, Weighted student funding in the Netherlands: A model for the U.S.?, Summer issue, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 30 no. 3 (June, 2011), pp. 470-498, WILEY, ISSN 0276-8739 [doi]  [abs]
  108. Clotfelter, CT; Ladd, HF; Vigdor, JL, Teacher Mobility, school Segregation, and Pay-Based policies to level the playing field, Summer issue, Education Finance and Policy, vol. 6 no. 3 (June, 2011), pp. 399-438, MIT Press - Journals, ISSN 1557-3060 [doi]  [abs]
  109. Ladd, HF; Clotfelter, CT; Vigdor, J, New Destinations, New Trajectories? The Educational Progress of Hispanic Youth in North Carolina, Special Section on Children from Immigrant Families, Child Development, vol. 83 no. 5 (2012), pp. 1608-1622 (R. Crosnoe and J. Lockhman, eds..) [22966926], [doi]  [abs]
  110. Ladd, HF, Education and Poverty: Confronting the Evidence, Presidential address to the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 31 no. 2 (2012), pp. 203-227, ISSN 0276-8739 [DukeSpace], [doi]  [abs]
  111. Ladd, HF, Education and Poverty: Confronting the Evidence, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 31 no. 2 (March, 2012), pp. 203-227, WILEY, ISSN 0276-8739 [repository], [doi]  [abs]
  112. Clotfelter, CT; Ladd, HF; Vigdor, JL, New destinations, new trajectories? The educational progress of Hispanic youth in North Carolina., Child development, vol. 83 no. 5 (September, 2012), pp. 1608-1622 [22966926], [doi]  [abs]
  113. Ladd, HF; Muschkin, CG; Dodge, KA, From Birth to School: Early Childhood Initiatives and Third-Grade Outcomes in North Carolina, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 33 no. 1 (2013), pp. 162-187, WILEY, ISSN 0276-8739 (PDF published on-line Nov. 4, 2013.) [doi]  [abs]
  114. Fuller, SC; Ladd, HF, School-based accountability and the distribution of teacher quality across grades in elementary school, Education Finance and Policy, vol. 8 no. 4 (October, 2013), pp. 528-559, MIT Press - Journals, ISSN 1557-3060 (Also available as Calder working paper #75.) [doi]  [abs]
  115. Clotfelter, CT; Ladd, HF; Muschkin, CG; Vigdor, JL, Success in Community College: Do Institutions Differ?, Research in Higher Education, vol. 54 no. 7 (November, 2013), pp. 805-824, Springer Nature, ISSN 0361-0365 (Earlier version available as Calder working paper #74.) [pdf], [doi]  [abs]
  116. Vigdor, JL; Ladd, HF; Martinez, E, Scaling the digital divide: Home computer technology and student achievement (2014), pp. 1103-1119, WILEY, ISSN 0095-2583 (Forthcoming.) [pdf], [doi]
  117. Vigdor, JL; Ladd, HF; Martinez, E, Scaling the digital divide: Home computer technology and student achievement, Economic Inquiry, vol. 52 no. 3 (January, 2014), pp. 1103-1119, ISSN 0095-2583 [doi]  [abs]
  118. Clotfelter, CT; Ladd, HF; Vigdor, JL, The aftermath of accelerating algebra: Evidence from district policy initiatives (January, 2015), pp. 159-188, University of Wisconsin Press, ISSN 0022-166X [doi]  [abs]
  119. Clotfelter, CT; Ladd, HF; Muschkin, C; Vigdor, JL, Developmental education in North Carolina community colleges, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, vol. 37 no. 3 (January, 2015), pp. 354-375, American Educational Research Association (AERA) (revised, March 2013, Under review (Check Calder.) [doi]  [abs]
  120. Clotfelter, CT; Ladd, HF; Vigdor, J, Public Universities, Equal Opportunity, and the Legacy of Jim Crow: Evidence from North Carolina (September, 2015)  [abs]
  121. Muschkin, CG; Ladd, HF; Dodge, KA, Impact of North Carolina’s Early Childhood Initiatives on Special Education Placements in Third Grade, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, vol. 37 no. 4 (December, 2015), pp. 478-500, American Educational Research Association (AERA) [doi]  [abs]
  122. Brighouse, H; Ladd, HF; Loeb, S; Swift, A, Educational goods and values: A framework for decision makers, Theory and Research in Education, vol. 14 no. 1 (March, 2016), pp. 3-25, SAGE Publications [doi]  [abs]
  123. Holbein, JB; Ladd, HF, Accountability Pressure: Regression Discontinuity Estimates of How NCLB Affects Student Behavior (May, 2016)  [abs]
  124. Dodge, KA; Bai, Y; Ladd, HF; Muschkin, CG, Impact of North Carolina's Early Childhood Programs and Policies on Educational Outcomes in Elementary School, Child Dev, vol. 88 no. 3 (November, 2016), pp. n/a-n/a [doi]  [abs]
  125. Ladd, HF, Commentary, edited by Eng, N; Ornstein, A, Journal of Social Issues, vol. 72 no. 4 (December, 2016), pp. 812-827, WILEY [doi]
  126. Ladd, HF, NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND: A DEEPLY FLAWED FEDERAL POLICY, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 36 no. 2 (March, 2017), pp. 461-469, WILEY [doi]
  127. Ladd, HF; Sorensen, LC, Returns to teacher experience: Student achievement and motivation in middle school, Education Finance and Policy, vol. 12 no. 2 (April, 2017), pp. 241-279, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press): Economics Titles [doi]  [abs]
  128. Holbein, JB; Ladd, HF, Accountability pressure: Regression discontinuity estimates of how No Child Left Behind influenced student behavior, Economics of Education Review, vol. 58 (June, 2017), pp. 55-67, Elsevier BV [doi]  [abs]
  129. Fiske, EB; Ladd, HF, Self-governing schools, parental choice, and the need to protect the public interest, Phi Delta Kappan, vol. 99 no. 1 (September, 2017), pp. 31-36, SAGE Publications [doi]  [abs]
  130. Heissel, JA; Ladd, HF, School turnaround in North Carolina: A regression discontinuity analysis, Economics of Education Review, vol. 62 (February, 2018), pp. 302-320, Elsevier BV [doi]  [abs]
  131. Brighouse, H; Ladd, H; Loeb, S; Swift, A, Good education policy making: Data-informed but values-driven, Phi Delta Kappan, vol. 100 no. 4 (December, 2018), pp. 36-39, SAGE Publications [doi]  [abs]
  132. Clotfelter, CT; Hemelt, SW; Ladd, HF, Raising the bar for college admission: North Carolina’s increase in minimum math course requirements, Education Finance and Policy, vol. 14 no. 3 (July, 2019), pp. 492-521 [doi]  [abs]
  133. Ladd, HF, EXPERIMENTATION FALLS SHORT AS A JUSTIFICATION FOR MORE CHARTER SCHOOLS, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 38 no. 4 (September, 2019), pp. 1074-1076 [doi]
  134. Ladd, HF, HOW CHARTER SCHOOLS THREATEN THE PUBLIC INTEREST, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 38 no. 4 (September, 2019), pp. 1063-1071 [doi]
  135. Ladd, HF; Singleton, JD, The fiscal externalities of charter schools: Evidence from North Carolina, Education Finance and Policy, vol. 15 no. 1 (January, 2020), pp. 191-208 [doi]  [abs]
  136. Muschkin, CG; Ladd, HF; Dodge, KA; Bai, Y, Gender Differences in the Impact of North Carolina’s Early Care and Education Initiatives on Student Outcomes in Elementary School, Educational Policy, vol. 34 no. 2 (March, 2020), pp. 377-407 [doi]  [abs]
  137. Clotfelter, CT; Ladd, HF; Clifton, CR; Turaeva, MR, School Segregation at the Classroom Level in a Southern ‘New Destination’ State, Race and Social Problems, vol. 13 no. 2 (June, 2021), pp. 131-160 [doi]  [abs]
  138. Hemelt, SW; Ladd, HF; Clifton, CR, Do Teacher Assistants Improve Student Outcomes? Evidence From School Funding Cutbacks in North Carolina, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, vol. 43 no. 2 (June, 2021), pp. 280-304 [doi]  [abs]
  139. Ladd, HF; Fiske, EB, Charter schools and equity: The power of accountability, Phi Delta Kappan, vol. 103 no. 1 (September, 2021), pp. 20-24 [doi]  [abs]
  140. Clotfelter, CT; Hemelt, SW; Ladd, HF; Turaeva, MR, School Segregation in the Era of Color-Blind Jurisprudence and School Choice, Urban Affairs Review, vol. 59 no. 2 (March, 2023), pp. 406-446 [doi]  [abs]
  141. Clotfelter, CT; Ladd, HF; Clifton, CR, RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN STUDENT ACCESS TO HIGH-QUALITY TEACHERS, Education Finance and Policy, vol. 18 no. 4 (September, 2023), pp. 738-752 [doi]  [abs]

Chapters in Books

  1. 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.)
  2. 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.)
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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.)
  13. 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.
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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.
  20. 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
  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, 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.)
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. H.F. Ladd, Big City Finances, in Big City Politics, Governance, and Fiscal Constraints (1994), pp. 201-269, Urban Institute Press
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. 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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. 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
  34. H.F. Ladd, Introduction, in Choosing Choice: Global Trends and National Variations, edited by David Plank and Gary Sykes (2003), Teacher's College Press
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. 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
  38. Robert Bifulco and Helen F. Ladd, M. Berends, M Springer and H. Walberg, eds, "Charter Schools in North Carolina" In Charter School Outcomes, New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2007), pp. 195-220
  39. 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
  40. H.F. Ladd with David Figlio, 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
  41. 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
  42. H.F. Ladd, Teacher Effects: What Do We Know?, Web based publication (Forthcoming)
  43. 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
  44. Figlio, DN; Ladd, HF, The Economics of School Accountability, in International Encyclopedia of Education, Third Edition (January, 2009), pp. 374-379, ISBN 9780080448947 [doi]  [abs]
  45. H.F. Ladd, Edward B. Fiske, Nienke Ruijs, Insights from the Netherlands: Growing Concerns about Segregation (October, 2009.) (Paper presented at the National Conference on School Choice, Vanderbilt University - Forthcoming in conference volume.)
  46. H.F. Ladd, Edward B. Fiske and Nienke Ruijs, Does Parental Choice Foster Segregated Schools: Insights from the Netherlands, In M Berends, M. Cannata, and E.B. Goldring, eds. School Choice and School Improvement. (2011), pp. 233-254, Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
  47. H.F. Ladd, Confessions of Wellesley FEM (2012) (Invited autobiographical essay, forthcoming in Eminent Economists II (Cambridge University Press.)
  48. H.F. Ladd and Susanna Loeb, The Challenges of Measuring School quality: Implications for Educational Equity, In D. Allen and R. Reich, eds., Education, Democracy and Justice (2013), pp. 19-42, University of Chicago Press
  49. Ladd, HF, Confessions of a wellesley FEM, in Eminent Economists II: Their Life and Work Philosophies (January, 2013), pp. 249-269, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9781107040533 [doi]  [abs]
  50. H.F. Ladd, Confessions of a Wellesley FEM, in Michael Svenberg and Lall Ramrrattan (eds), Eminent Economists II: Their Life and Work Philosophies (2014), Cambridge University Press (Forthcoming January 2014.)
  51. H.F. Ladd, Charles Clotfelter and Jacob Vigdor, Racial and Economic Imbalance in Charlotte's Schools, 1994-2012, in R.A. Mickelson, S.S. Smith and A.H. Nelson (eds), Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. The Past, Present, and Future of School (De)Segregation in Charlotte (2014), Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (Forthcoming.)
  52. Bifulco, R; Ladd, HF, Charter schools in North Carolina, in Charter School Outcomes (January, 2017), pp. 195-219, ISBN 9780805862218 [doi]  [abs]
  53. Ladd, HF, Self-governing schools, parental choice, and the public interest, in School Choice at the Crossroads: Research Perspectives (October, 2018), pp. 235-248, ISBN 9780815380368 [doi]
  54. Ladd, HF; Fiske, EB, International perspectives on school choice, in Handbook of Research on School Choice (January, 2019), pp. 87-100, ISBN 9780815381464 [doi]  [abs]
  55. Figlio, DN; Ladd, HF, The economics of school accountability, in The Economics of Education: A Comprehensive Overview (January, 2020), pp. 567-575, ISBN 9780128153918 [doi]  [abs]

Op-eds

  1. Clotfelter, C; Ladd, Helen, ; Vigdor, Jacob, , Surprising Success Among Hispanic students (June, 2006), Duke Today [repository]

Other

  1. 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.)
  2. 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.)
  3. H.F. Ladd, What Economics Can Contribute to the Tax Limitation Debate (July, 1980) (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Discussion Paper D80-8.)
  4. H.F. Ladd with Howard Bloom and John Yinger, Intrajurisdictional Property Tax Capitalization (August, 1980) (Final Report to Department of Housing and Urban Development.)
  5. 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.)
  6. 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.)
  7. H.F. Ladd with Julie Boatright Wilson, Tax Limitation Study (1982) (Final Report to National Institute of Education.)
  8. 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.)
  9. H.F. Ladd, Financing Services in the Federal System (1983) (prepared for a Bunting Institute Colloquium (November 1982), Bunting Institute Working Paper.)
  10. H.F. Ladd with Robert Schafer, Discrimination in Mortgage Lending: A Microeconomic Model of Mortgage Terms (February, 1983)
  11. H.F. Ladd (with others), State Aid Distribution Formulas: The Need for More Equalization, Impact 2 1/2 Newsletter (September, 1983)
  12. 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.)
  13. 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.)
  14. 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.)
  15. 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.)
  16. 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.)
  17. H.F. Ladd with Claire Christopherson, Demand for Local Public Services: Evidence from Survey Data (1989) (financed by the National Science Foundation.)
  18. 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.)
  19. H.F. Ladd, Big City Finances (June, 1989) (prepared for the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and financed by the Ford Foundation.)
  20. 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.)
  21. 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.)
  22. 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.)
  23. 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.)
  24. 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.)
  25. H.F. Ladd, Local Tax and Land Use Policy: A Survey (Fall, 1992) (prepared for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.)
  26. Ladd, HF, The public sector - Commentary, edited by Wolman, HL; Agius, EJ, NATIONAL URBAN POLICY (January, 1996), pp. 136-142, WAYNE STATE UNIV PRESS, ISBN 0-8143-2543-2 [Gateway.cgi]
  27. H.F. Ladd, School-Based Accountability and Incentive Programs (January, 1998) (Paper commissioned by the National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Education Finance.)
  28. H.F. Ladd with Edward B. Fiske, Limits of Vouchers Exposed, Philadelphia Inquirer (September 25, 2000)
  29. H.F. Ladd with Edward B. Fiske, Vouchers Have Been Tried - and Failed, Los Angeles Times (October 18, 2000)
  30. H.F. Ladd with James Hamilton, Cause for Confusion and N.C.'s Own Ballot, The News and Observer (November 11, 2000)
  31. H.F. Ladd with Edward Fiske, A Distant Laboratory: Learning Cautionary Lessons from New Zealand's Schools, Education Week (May 17, 2000)
  32. H.F. Ladd with Edward Fiske, The Invisible Hand as Schoolmaster, The America Prospect (May 22, 2000)
  33. H.F. Ladd with Edward Fiske, A Cautionary Tale from New Zealand, The New York Times (Education Life Section) (August 6, 2000)
  34. 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.)
  35. 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.)
  36. 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.)
  37. H.F. Ladd, Policy memo on School Vouchers - Child and Family Policy Center (2003)
  38. 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.)
  39. 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.)
  40. 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..) [online]
  41. H.F. Ladd with Edward Fiske, Learning from South Africa, Commentary in Ed Week (mid March 2005)
  42. 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.)
  43. 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.)
  44. H.F. Ladd with Robert Bifulco, Charter Schools in North Carolina, National Center on School Choice, vol. Conference , Vanderbuilt University
  45. 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..)
  46. 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..)
  47. H.F. Ladd, Commentary on paper by Thomas Nechyba (2008) (Lincoln Institute volume on Fiscal Decentralization (forthcoming)..)
  48. Clotfelter, CT; Ladd, HF; Vigdor, JL, Classroom-level segregation and resegregation in North Carolina (January, 2009), pp. 70-86, ISBN 9780807829530
  49. H.F. Ladd, Edward B. Fiske, Nienke Ruijs, Migrant Education in the Netherlands: Segregation and the Role of Weighted Student Funding (18-20 February 2010) (Paper presented at the conference on "Migration, A World in Motion: A Multinational Conference on Migration and Migration Policy," in Masstricht, The Netherlands.)
  50. H.F. Ladd, Sara Pilzer, Using Survey Data to Measure the Quality of School Principals (March 18-20, 2010) (Paper prepared for the American Education Association Meetings, Richmond Virginia. Revised version to be presented at APPAM in November, 2010.)
  51. H.F. Ladd, Press release on early childhood programs in North Carolina, (with follow up op eds. in several NC papers) (March 16, 2011) (Press release on early childhood programs in North Carolina.)
  52. H.F. Ladd and Edward B. Fiske, Class Matters. Why Won't We Admit It?, New York Times Opinion Pages (December 12, 2011)

Published Policy Briefs and Comments

  1. 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)
  2. 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)
  3. 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
  4. 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.)
  5. 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.)
  6. 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
  7. 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.)
  8. 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.)
  9. H.F. Ladd, Comments on chapter by Tom Loveless, edited by Diane Ravitch, Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 1997 (1997)
  10. H.F. Ladd, Fiscal Disparities and Fiscal Equalization, in entries for the Encyclopedia of Taxation (1997), National Tax Association and the Urban Institute
  11. H.F. Ladd, How School Districts Respond to Fiscal Constraint, Selected Papers in School Finance, 1996 (1998), National Center for Education Statistics
  12. H.F. Ladd with Edward Fiske, When Schools Compete: Lessons Learned From New Zealand's Experiments with Market-Based Reforms, Rethinking Schools (Summer 2000)
  13. H.F. Ladd with Edward Fiske, A Level Playing Field: What We Can Learn from the New Zealand School Reform?, American Educator (Fall 2000)
  14. H.F. Ladd with Edward Fiske, The Empty Aisles of Marketplace Reform, The School Administrator (November 2000)
  15. 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)
  16. H.F. Ladd, Comments on paper of school vouchers by Caroline Hoxby, Swedish Economic Review (Fall, 2003)
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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)
  20. H.F. Ladd, Rethinking the Way We Hold Schools Accountable, Opinion piece, Education Week. (Also reprinted in the Durham Herald Sun.) (2008)
  21. H.F. Ladd, Opinion pice on education policy and the presidential election, Durham Herald Sun (2008)

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