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3470
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Overview

William Duncombe is a researcher affiliated with Syracuse University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the social sciences and economics, econometrics, and finance. Duncombe has contributed significantly to various subfields, including economics and econometrics, education, safety research, and law.

Their scholarly work covers several major topics, reflecting a broad engagement with both economic policy and education issues. Key topics in Duncombe's research include:

  • School Choice and Performance
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Housing Market and Economics
  • Higher Education Research Studies
  • EU Law and Policy Analysis
  • Economic and Fiscal Studies

Duncombe collaborates frequently with several co-authors, among them:

  • John Ýinger
  • Tae Ho Eom
  • Phuong Nguyen-Hoang
  • Anna Lukemeyer
  • Wen Wang

While Duncombe's list of recent papers does not include detailed titles or venues, their publication record spans various disciplines connected to their fields of study. These include social sciences, economics, econometrics, education, safety research, and law.

The balance of research across these areas suggests an interdisciplinary approach, integrating economic analyses with educational and social policy considerations. Duncombe's involvement in topics such as fiscal policy and economic growth intersects with the study of public policies and outcomes, while work on school choice and performance aligns with education research efforts.

The absence of recorded awards or book publications does not diminish the relevance of Duncombe's contributions to their fields, as indicated by sustained research output and collaboration across multiple domains of study.

Best Publications

  • Revisiting Economies of Size in American Education: Are We Any Closer to a Consensus?.

    Matthew Andrews;William Duncombe;John Yinger

  • ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO MEASURING THE COST OF EDUCATION

    William Duncombe;John Ruggiero;John Yinger

  • Does School District Consolidation Cut Costs

    William Duncombe;John Yinger

  • Empirical evaluation of bureaucratic models of inefficiency

    William Duncombe;Jerry Miner;John Ruggiero

  • The No Child Left Behind Act: Have federal funds been left behind?

    William Duncombe;Anna Lukemeyer;John Yinger

  • Potential cost savings from school district consolidation: A case study of New York

    William Duncombe;Jerry Miner;John Ruggiero

  • Why is it so hard to help central city schools

    William Duncombe;John Yinger

  • An analysis of returns to scale in public production, with an application to fire protection

    William Duncombe;John Yinger

  • How Much More Does a Disadvantaged Student Cost

    William D. Duncombe;John Yinger

  • SCHOOL FINANCE REFORM: AID FORMULAS AND EQUITY OBJECTIVES

    William Duncombe;John Yinger

  • Measurement of Cost Differentials

    William D. Duncombe;Phuong Nguyen-Hoang;John McHenry Yinger

  • Financing higher student performance standards: the case of New York State

    William Duncombe;John Yinger

  • State and Local Debt Burdens in the 1980s: A Study in Contrast

    Roy Bahl;William Duncombe

  • On the Measurement and Causes of Technical Inefficiency in Local Public Services: With an Application to Public Education

    John Ruggiero;William Duncombe;Jerry Miner

  • Place Characteristics and Residential Location Choice Among the Retirement-Age Population

    William Duncombe;Mark Robbins;Douglas Alan Wolf

  • Retire to where? A discrete choice model of residential location

    William Duncombe;Mark Robbins;Douglas A. Wolf

  • An Economic Evaluation of Paid, Volunteer, and Mixed Staffing Options for Public Services

    Jeffrey L. Brudney;William D. Duncombe

  • Measuring Citizen Preferences for Public Services Using Surveys: Does a “Gray Peril” Threaten Funding for Public Education?

    William Duncombe;Mark Robbins;Jeffrey Stonecash

  • Performance Standards and Educational Cost Indexes: You Can't Have One Without the Other

    William Duncombe;John Yinger

  • Demand for Local Public Services Revisited: the Case of Fire Protection:

    William D. Duncombe

Frequent Co-Authors

John Yinger
John Yinger Syracuse University
Douglas A. Wolf
Douglas A. Wolf Syracuse University
Richard V. Burkhauser
Richard V. Burkhauser Cornell University
Timothy M. Smeeding
Timothy M. Smeeding University of Wisconsin–Madison

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