, which results in families of otherwise similar children receiving substantially different refunds during the first year of …

We estimate the impact of charter schools on early-life labor market outcomes using administrative data from Texas. We … find that, at the mean, charter schools have no impact on test scores and a negative impact on earnings. No Excuses charter … schools increase test scores and four-year college enrollment, but have a small and statistically insignificant impact on …

likely came from disadvantaged families who could have benefited the most from schooling. Even in this relatively favorable …

discontinuity design. The intervention consisted of upgrading existing three-classroom schools to six-classroom schools to … by 0.29 standard deviations. Students in treatment schools progress further through the grades, compared to students in … non-selected schools. These upgraded schools are effective at getting children into school, getting children to start …

from attending effective schools. However, the least advantaged students experience the largest improvements in high … in the effectiveness of schools attended by more and less advantaged students, it is the most advantaged students that … are most likely to attend highly effective schools. These patterns underscore the importance of quality schools, and the …

Efforts to attract and retain effective educators in high poverty public schools have had limited success. Dallas ISD … schools. The Accelerating Campus Excellence (ACE) program offers salary supplements to educators with records of high … performance who are willing to work in the most educationally disadvantaged schools. We document that ACE resulted in immediate …

families place substantial weight on schools' academic quality, providing schools with competition-induced incentives to … schools exposed to more competition, supporting the notion that competition is a key channel. Demand estimates suggest …