Mehan Vásquez Albarrán Betts Binder Cole Edwards Forbes Humphries Jones J. Levin P. Levin Lytle Yonezawa Zentella CREATE	Nora Gordon Assistant Professor, Economics negordon@weber.ucsd.edu This year on research leave, at UCSD, through the Advanced Studies Fellowship Program at Brown University Education: Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University Research: My research interests lie broadly in the fields of the economics of education and public economics, and more specifically in fiscal federalism and local political economy. I am interested in how the behavior of one level of government, such as the federal or state level, shapes the behavior of lower jurisdictions, such as school districts, counties, cities, and towns. Higher levels of government can affect lower jurisdictions' decisions through incentives set by how they structure aid to those lower jurisdictions, as well as through direct curricular and reporting mandates. Particular policy applications I have worked on include Title I, bilingual education, and school district consolidation. My current research focuses on responses of local governments other than school districts to Title I and to state school finance equalizations.   Online References: UCSD Department of Economics Nora Gordon - UCSD Economics Advanced Studies Fellowship, Brown University   Articles: Do Federal Grants Boost School Spending? Evidence from Title I September 2002. Forthcoming, Journal of Public Economics Bilingual Education versus English Immersion: Findings from California's Proposition 227 With Caroline Hoxby. Mimeo, July 2002 School District Organization and Student Outcomes: Historical Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Illinois and Iowa Mimeo, June 2002