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 …

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 …

earnings premiums using a regression discontinuity design. We study the universe of students that applied to the Connecticut … arise through selection of students with high 8th grade tests scores into these industries because they offer a higher …

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 …

regression discontinuity design. Male students are 10 percentage points more likely to graduate from high school and have half a … semester less time enrolled in college, although effects on college fade-out. Male students have 32% higher quarterly earnings …. Earnings effects may in part reflect general skills: male students have higher attendance rates and test scores, and industry …