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 …

,000 individuals from 53 countries. Country characteristics (such as per-capita income, average education of the country, presence of … of the individuals influence vengeful feelings. The magnitude of vengeful feelings is greater for people in low-income …-crime areas of their country and people who are at the bottom 50% of their country's income distribution are more vengeful. The …

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

, however, that the "Dragon" effect on test scores is eliminated when we account for parents' expectations about their children …'s educational and professional success. We find that parents of Dragon children have higher expectations for their children in … comparison to other parents, and that they invest more heavily in their children in terms of time and money. Even though neither …

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 …