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 …

of US schools, reshaping the group of peers with whom students age through adolescence. US-born students are more likely … to have foreign-born peers and foreign-born students are more likely to be educated outside of enclaves. This study … examines the short-term and long-term impact of being educated with immigrant peers, for both US-born and foreign-born students …

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 …