Geographic school admissions criteria bind residential and school choices for some parents, and could create … the policy decision of geographic versus non-geographic school admissions criteria has important implications for … equilibrium outcomes in school and housing markets. Geographic admissions criteria segregate schools, but integrate neighborhoods …

and middle school teachers. Consistent with theory, high wage increases for promotion are associated with better …

outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child …

end of secondary school. We provide empirical evidence of self-productivity of skills and of complementarity between … secondary school inputs and skills at the end of primary school. Our inference relies on idiosyncratic variation in school … ability is 0.221 and the return to school expenditure is three times higher for students at the top of the past attainment …

We examine the educational production function and efficiency of public school districts in Illinois. Using … in school districts. Moreover, the level of test scores, commonly used as a measure of school effectiveness, (while … related) differs substantially from our efficiency scores, and standard parametric approaches drastically underestimate school …

for the efficient provision of goods and services in a market economy. This paper explores the implications of school … measure of ability dispersion in a school, leading to lower skill acquisition. -- education ; reputation ; competition ; labor …