Title Information
Title
Get Real! Inflation Adjustments of Education Finance Data
Name
Name Part
Christopher A. Candelaria
Role
Role Term (marcrelator) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut")
author
Name
Name Part
Kenneth A. Shores
Role
Role Term (marcrelator) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut")
author
Subject
Topic
School Finance
Subject
Topic
Consumer Price Index
Subject
Topic
Inflation Adjustment
Subject (edworkp)
Topic
K-12 Education
Subject (edworkp)
Topic
Finance
Origin Information
Date Created
2019
Publisher
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Abstract
Use of education finance data is ubiquitous. Yet, because the academic calendar circumscribes two calendar years, researchers have linked the Consumer Price Index to three different dates: the Fall, Spring and academic fiscal years. We demonstrate that linking the CPI to these different academic year results in identifying different trends in U.S. educational spending during the Great Recession. Descriptive inferences should not be sensitive to researcher discretion about merge years. We provide an easy-to-use software package to facilitate implementation of NCES guidelines in the hope that future analyses of education finance data will explicitly and consistently apply inflation adjustments.  
Language
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eng
Type of Resource
text
Genre (aat)
grey literature
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Identifier: DOI
10.26300/gjhy-bz17
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