Value-added data are an increasingly common evaluation tool for schools and teachers. Many school districts have … analysis is the first in the school valuation literature to examine property value responses to a value-added information shock …, which is of interest as this measure is less correlated with demographics than typical school quality measures. Unique to …

We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent’s schooling on child’s schooling, and …

Immigrant children often face educational disadvantages that stem from their parents' decision-making. For example, in … programs or enable them access to higher education. Thus, a key question is how to get immigrant parents to provide their … birthright citizenship in Germany caused immigrant parents to adapt their educational choices for their offspring. We employ a …

school districts, which serve higher-income, predominantly-white families, accept a group of minority elementary school … students who apply to transfer from a nearby, predominantly-minority school district. Slots are allocated via lottery. The …

We model centralized school matching as a second stage of a simple Tiebout-model and show that the two most discussed … disadvantaged if the school priorities are based on ex ante known (social) differences of the applicants …

graduates and high school graduates. We calibrate the model to data for men born around 1960 and find that ability selection …

Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market …, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic … performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of …