The EFE-SIG focuses on investigating, conceptualizing, and theorizing the links between Economics and Finance of Education Policies. The Economics and Finance of Education SIG offers a new opportunity for scholars interested in the following topics:

 

• Redistribution, political philosophy, economics, and financing schooling systems

• International aid and mechanisms of redistribution

• Education finance, economics, and poverty reduction

• Financing education and theories of justice

• Theories of learning, knowledge and knowledge economics

• School finance, adequacy, and equity in resource allocation

• Equality of Educational Opportunity and its effect on society.

• Teachers’ effectiveness, incentives and rewards

• Charter schools and school based management

• Higher education finance and learning networks

• Early childhood finance

• Special education finance

• State competitiveness, social cohesiveness and mechanisms of reallocation