Value-added models (VAMs) are increasingly used to measure school effectiveness. Yet, random variation in school …. In this paper, I use random assignment from a public school choice lottery to test the predictive power of VAM … specifications. In VAMs with minimal controls and two or more years of prior data, I fail to reject the hypothesis that school …

effects differ by gender and race. Utilizing school-by-year fixed effect methods that allow us to address possible endogeneity …

poorer areas for the first time in US history, with a goal of promoting regional convergence in school spending. Using newly … collected data, we find some evidence that Title I narrowed the gap in per-pupil school spending between richer and poorer … states in the short- to medium-run. However, the program was small relative to then-existing poverty gaps in school spending …

among those at risk of dropping out of high school, a target of recent health policy efforts. …

changes across states during this period, such as relative school quality improvements, suggest that this assumption may fail …

This paper applies a regression discontinuity design to the Romanian secondary school system, generating two findings … stratification of schools by quality in general, and the opportunity to attend a better school in particular, result in significant … when their children attend a better school. …