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 response to budget problems, many urban school systems reduced resources for getting students to come to school … controlled trial with C&C in partnership with the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to students in grades 1-8. Program participation … decreased absences in grades 5-7 by 4.2 days, or 22.9 percent, but with no detectable effects on students in grades 1-4. We also …

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 …

There is growing concern that it is too difficult or costly to substantially improve the academic skills of children … year). Our first randomized controlled trial (RCT) of Saga's tutoring model with 2,633 9th and 10th grade students in … in math and non-math courses. We replicated these results in a separate RCT with 2,710 students and found even larger …

employ data from the universe of children born in Florida between 1994 and 2002 and in Denmark between 1990 and 2001, which …