School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward effective schools and punish … ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose schools based on causal effectiveness rather than peer characteristics … estimate impacts on college attendance and college quality. Parents prefer schools that enroll high-achieving peers, and these …

tried to integrate schools. Today, district-wide choice allows Boston and New York students to enroll far from home, perhaps …

disadvantaged students to attend private schools of their choice. We exploit random assignment of LSP vouchers at oversubscribed …