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 …

Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992-2002, we assess whether family … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in … substantial part because black children are raised in more disadvantaged families …

a regression discontinuity design, we document how a third grade retention policy affects both the target children and … their younger siblings. The policy improves test scores of both children while the spillover is up to 30% of the target … child effect size. The effects are particularly pronounced in families where one of the children is disabled, for boys, and …

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

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

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 …

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 …