We study the impact of a public school choice lottery in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools on college enrollment and degree … school. Using rich administrative data on peers, teachers, course offerings and other inputs, we show that the impacts of … choice are strongly predicted by gains on several measures of school quality. Gains in attainment are concentrated among …

combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school … immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …

This paper: i) estimates the effect that going to a better school has on students' academic achievement, and ii …) explores whether this intervention induces behavioral responses on the part of children, their parents, and the school system …'s high school educational system. For the second, we use data from a specialized survey of children, parents, teachers and …

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 …

More than one out of every five principals leaves their school each year. In some cases, these career changes are … longitudinal data from one large urban school district to study the relationship between principal turnover and school outcomes. We … find that principal turnover is, on average, detrimental to school performance. Frequent turnover of school leadership …

negative) might grant a school greater success (or failure) in the market for students than an objective accounting of its …

attend based in part on the expected economic return and net costs. In this paper we explicitly model high school students … estimate selectivity corrected outcome equations, using data from both the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class … of 1972 and High School and Beyond, which permit us to determine the effects of college quality on wages and earnings and …

This paper investigates two main questions: i) What do applicants take into consideration when choosing a high school … students' preferences and derive demand for each school by taking each student's feasible set of schools into account. We … obtain average valuation placed on each school from market clearing conditions. Next, we investigate what drives these …

In this paper, we use a unique two-stage experiment that randomized access to school vouchers across both markets and … students in rural India to estimate the revealed preference value of school choice. In the first step of the research design …, we develop an empirical model of school choice subject to liquidity and credit constraints that is estimated using data …

implied in earlier research at the elementary and secondary school level, but important outliers exist …