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 …

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 …

non-charter levels (that is, the average achievement level for urban non-charter students), and beyond non …

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

that links students' preferences to the achievement gains generated by charter attendance. I estimate the model using … instruments based on randomized admission lotteries and distance to charter schools. The estimates show that students do not sort … score gains for disadvantaged, low-achieving students, but demand for charters is stronger among richer students and high …