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 …

attainment between parents and children, we document lower average mobility rates for blacks than whites, but wide variation … quality of local schools, with bigger effects for the children of less-educated parents. We then narrow our focus to black …We use 1940 Census data to study the intergenerational transmission of human capital for children born in the 1920s and …

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 …

with between-cohort comparisons of students at schools with small numbers of gifted children per cohort, to evaluate the …. Since most schools have only a handful of gifted students per cohort, the majority of seats are filled by high achievers …-gifted participants, concentrated among black and Hispanic students, who gain 0.5 standard deviation units in fourth grade reading and …

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

significant gains in reading and math, concentrated among lower-income and black and Hispanic students. The math gains persist to …Education policy makers have struggled for decades with the question of how to best serve high ability K-12 students … admission threshold, or a lower bar for disadvantaged students? We use data from a large urban school district to study the …