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 …

Students receive abundant information about their educational performance, but how this information affects future …-mandated standardized tests. On these tests, students receive a score and a label that summarizes their performance. Using a regression …-discontinuity design, we find persistent effects of earning a more positive label on the college-going decisions of urban, low-income …

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 …

implementation of SEP increased student scores, especially in schools serving high concentrations of low-income students. Migration … of low-income students from public schools to private voucher schools played a small role …1.On average, student test scores increased markedly and income-based gaps in those scores declined by one-third in the …

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 …