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 …

the variance in knowledge does indeed rise as children progress through school, but not enough for test score …

instruction for children younger than the standard eligibility age for public education. I describe how ECE programs can be …

low-income 4 year olds. State pre-K programs targeted toward disadvantaged children do not. Differences in other pre … universal preschools offer a relatively high-quality learning experience for low-income children not reflected in typical …

boost achievement, these gains emerge only for students who attend lottery schools. Attendance at a coveted Grade A screened …

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

needn't capture treatment effects for students who haven't applied to charter schools or for students attending charters for …. Students enrolled in the schools designated for closure are eligible for "grandfathering" into the new schools; that is, they … attendance: the grandfathering instrument compares students at schools designated for takeover with students who appear similar …

, and children's test performance as late as eighth grade. For higher-income families, however, we find that the programs … of family and child outcomes. We find that the state programs have increased the preschool enrollment rates of children … from lower- and higher-income families alike. For lower-income families, our findings also suggest that the programs have …

comprehensive high schools into small schools with roughly 100 students per grade. We use assignment lotteries embedded in New York … attendance causes a substantial increase in college enrollment, with a marked shift to CUNY institutions. Students are also less … likely to require remediation in reading and writing when at college. Detailed school surveys indicate that students at small …