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 …

leaders and parents of children enrolled in public schools into committees and gives these groups powers over resource … in a new testing tool, and training and organizing volunteers to hold remedial reading camps for illiterate children. We … learning outcomes in those schools. However, we do find that the intervention that trained volunteers to teach children to read …

disadvantaged students when parents have easy access to test score information and have good options to choose from …We analyze two experiments that provided direct information on school test scores to lower-income families in a public … school choice plan. We find that receiving information significantly increases the fraction of parents choosing higher …

with accountability measures to allow parents of children in under-performing schools the opportunity to choose higher … an impact on the schools parents chose and if those changed choices led to academic gains. We find that 16% of parents … their current NCLB school. We then use the lottery assignment of students to chosen schools to test if changed choices led …

Grade retention and early dropout are two of the biggest challenges facing education systems in middle-income countries … outcomes that are early-warning signals for grade retention and dropout. We conducted an experiment in low-income schools in … information to parents via weekly and monthly text messages. Our 18-month intervention raised average math GPA by 0.09 of a …

We develop a multi-agent model of the education production function where investments of students, parents, and … survey data and a mandate to randomly assign students to classrooms. Consistent with our model, we show that exposure to …

We examine a model in which per capita income, inequality, intergenerational mobility, and returns to education are all … education with transfers received from their parents, and are subject to liquidity constraints. In the model, multiple steady …, inequality, and per capita income. Equilibria with higher levels of output also have lower inequality, higher mobility, and more …

reduced crime rates of the targeted generation and their children by comparable amounts. We attribute these outcomes to …

third, or intensive margin,' combines the increasing self-segregation (on the basis of aptitude) of students among colleges …