Low-performing, high-poverty, public schools notoriously struggle to attract and retain good teachers. This paper …-performing schools, while funding remains public. Exploiting the staggered expansion of English Sponsor-led academies since the early …, on average, better paid, and more likely to come from outstanding schools. The takeover also induces teacher sorting …

villages with multiple public and private schools and clearly defined catchment boundaries. The program was randomized at the … were 0.2 sd higher in public schools. We find evidence of an education multiplier: test scores in private schools were also … is greater for those private schools that faced a greater threat to their market power. Accounting for private sector …

several decades ago in Bogotá, Colombia, to assess the short run impacts of such an intervention. A large fractions of the …

districts, local decision-makers overwhelmingly favored white schools when allotting funds from the state's preexisting per … Black schools, those in majority-Black districts continued to experience extremely low - and even worsening - school funding …

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 …

were not. To identify indirect effects, we compare sixth graders in middle schools (whose older schoolmates are vaccine … eligible) to sixth graders in elementary schools (whose schoolmates are ineligible). This variation in difference … all grades, we find essentially no difference in COVID-19 incidence between sixth graders in middle schools and sixth …