We develop a framework that may be used to determine the degree to which a school choice program may harm public school …-skimming" effect is increasing in the degree of heterogeneity within schools, the school choice takeup rate of strong students relative … high school graduation rate of the students who would remain in public school. We employ NELS:88 data to measure the …

We study the effects of private school competition on public school students' test scores in the wake of Florida … private school options open to students. We find that greater degrees of competition are associated with greater improvements … to a more competitive private school landscape saw greater improvements in their test scores after the introduction of …

individuals go to school and accumulate skill valued in a perfectly competitive labor market. To this it adds one ingredient …: 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 …

This paper uses data from the implementation of a district-wide public school choice plan in Mecklenburg County, North … Carolina to estimate preferences for school characteristics and examine their implications for the local educational market. We … attached to a school's mean test score increases with student's income and own academic ability. We also find considerable …

Rothstein has produced two comments, Rothstein (2003) and Rothstein (2004), on Hoxby "Does Competition Among Public … against the evidence, each innuendo proves to be false. One of the major points of Rothstein (2003) is that lagged school … districts are a valid instrumental variable for today's school districts. This is not credible. Another major claim of Rothstein …

local school districts within a metropolitan area and average test scores. She argues that choice is endogenous to school … scores, which she interprets as evidence that school choice induces greater school productivity. This paper revisits Hoxby … indicates a choice effect near zero. There is thus little evidence that schools respond to Tiebout competition by raising …

that would inject private-school competition and increase technical efficiencies without cream skimming. Conditioning …. However, by adding conditions like tuition constraints such as vouchers can reap the benefits of school competition without …

into schools when peer effects are present. The model predicts that competition will lead private schools to give tuition … private school increases with both income and ability, and, among private schools, the propensity to attend the highest …-tuition school rises with both income and ability. Within private schools, tuition declines with student ability, with a substantial …

teachers who raise a schools' ability to attract students. Thus, in the long term, school choice would affect who became (and … choice (Tiebout choice, choice of private schools) and a new survey of charter school teachers, this paper finds evidence … that suggests that school choice would change the teaching profession by demanding teachers with higher quality college …