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 …

/degrees from for-profit, not-for-profit, and public institutions. Students who enter certificate programs at any type of …

productivity parameter, class size is a component of school quality, households are heterogeneous in income and hence willingness … between class size and household income in equilibrium, which will tend to bias cross-sectional estimates of the effect of … approach in settings in which parents have substantial school choice and schools are free to set prices and influence their …

records to students' performance on a national college graduation exam. In each case we can control for individuals' college …

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 …

no effect on the educational attainment of children born in the fourth quarter of moving from a December 31 to an earlier …

: school reputation in the spirit of Holmstrom (1982). The first result is that if schools cannot select students based upon … are allowed to select on ability, then competition leads to stratification by parental income, increased transmission of … income inequality, and reduced student effort---in some cases lowering the accumulation of skill. The model accounts for …