School choice lotteries are an important tool for allocating access to high-quality and oversubscribed public schools …. While prior evidence suggests that winning a school lottery decreases adult criminality, there is little evidence for how … school choice lotteries impact non-lottery students who are left behind at their neighborhood school. We leverage variation …

Does a school district that expands school choice provide better outcomes for students than a neighborhood …-based assignment system? This paper studies the Zones of Choice (ZOC) program, a school choice initiative of the Los Angeles Unified … School District (LAUSD) that created small high school markets in some neighborhoods but left attendance-zone boundaries in …

This paper measures parents' beliefs about school and peer quality, how information about each affects school choices …, and how social interactions mediate these effects. Parents underestimate school quality and overestimate peer quality …. Cross-randomized school and peer quality information combined with a spillover design shows that when parents received …

student needs and learning approaches to keep children in school. A related problem is the apparently large divergence between …