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 Tennessee STAR data. The estimates show that students in higher poverty schools and with greater learning aptitude …

aggregate costs of providing mandated programs for disabled children. Little attention has been paid to the effectiveness of … average special education program boosts mathematics and reading achievement of special education students, particularly those … classified as learning disabled, while not detracting from regular education students. These results are estimated quite …

Considerable controversy surrounds the impact of schools and teachers on the achievement of students. This paper … systematic factors a negative impact of initial years of teaching and a positive effect of smaller class sizes for low income … children in earlier grades but these effects are very small relative to the effects of overall teacher quality differences …

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 …