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 …

We evaluate the effects of academic achievement awards for first and second-year college students on a Canadian … 70 for second-year students, but there was no significant effect on overall GPA. Results are somewhat stronger for a …

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 …

schools enroll a growing share of students. We also evaluate an alternative to the charter model, Boston's pilot schools …

year grades. A third treatment group combined both interventions. Service take-up rates were much higher for students …

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

tried to integrate schools. Today, district-wide choice allows Boston and New York students to enroll far from home, perhaps …