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 …

in the U.S. Specifically, we examine the effect of school quality improvements early in children's lives on the … Michigan public school students to adult criminal justice records. The first research design exploits variation in operating … students exposed to additional funding during elementary school were substantially less likely to be arrested in adulthood. We …

affirm that marginal returns to education among children of less-educated parents are as high and perhaps much higher than … education and earnings than other men. The education and earnings gains are concentrated among men with poorly-educated parents …

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

school and neighborhood segregation on the relative SAT scores of black students across different metropolitan areas, using … composition, income, and region. We find robust evidence that the black-white test score gap is higher in more segregated cities …

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

behavioral intermediate outcomes. A likely reason for children's improvements is that their birth parents made positive changes …, as most children in our setting reunified with their parents after a short stay in foster care. In light of recent … the United States is comprised of former foster children--yet there is little evidence on whether this relationship is …

Ten percent of Black children in the U.S. spend time in foster care--twice the rate of white children. We estimate …, we find that Black children are 1.7 percentage points (50%) more likely to be placed into foster care following an … investigation than white children conditional on subsequent maltreatment potential. This disparity is entirely driven by white …