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 …

This paper presents an overview and interpretation of the literature relating school quality to students' subsequent … education. We then summarize the literature that relates school resources to students' earnings and educational attainment. A … variety of evidence suggests that students who were educated in schools with more resources tend to earn more and have higher …

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 …

special-need students, groups that charter critics have argued are typically under-served. The results show overall gains of 0 ….35 standard deviations in math and 0.12 standard deviations in reading for each year spent at KIPP Lynn. LEP students, special … education students, and those with low baseline scores benefit more from time spent at KIPP than do other students, with reading …

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 …