Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging three alternative … remaining in traditional public schools (TPS). We consistently find that competition stemming from the opening of new charter …

We study whether information provision improves the academic performance of primary school children in a setting where … either intra or both intra and inter school performance of students in curriculum based tests. We find significant … improvement in test scores of private school students by 0.31 standard deviations when information on both absolute and relative …

data that matches high school preferences of the population of urban middle school graduates in one Chinese prefecture in … 2010 with high school student records. The standard admission channel is generally driven by merit subject to only nominal … announced school-specific admission thresholds in the city-wide High School Entrance Exam (HSEE) scores. Multiple-cutoff RDD …

Free school choice has often been argued to be a tide that lifts school quality through increased competition. This … paper analyzes the underlying assumption that school quality is an important choice criterion for parents. Using a large and … representative data set of over 15,000 Dutch primary school starters we estimate models of school demand that incorporate …

school competition are both independently related to student outcomes. …Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging a student fixed … effects design, we explore how the massive scale-up of a Florida private school choice program affected public school students …

effects of attending a more advanced track in middle school on long-term education and labor market outcomes for Germany, a … favorable long-term outcomes. We attribute this result to the up- and downgrading of students between tracks after middle school … exposure to a less advanced school environment. …

Previous research shows that, in tracked school systems, enrollment decisions are strongly associated with future … collected within the Arianna Project, an independent school track counseling service run by the municipality of a large city in … school. We show that students' enrollment intentions are very often inconsistent with their actual potential as revealed by …

trends of school effects on student achievement employing three national probability samples of high school seniors: NLS:72 …, HSB:82, and NELS:92. Hierarchical linear models are used to investigate school effects. The findings reveal that the … between school variation in achievement, which becomes larger over time. Schools are more diverse and more segregated in the …

scale and competition. -- school choice ; competition ; school consolidation ; achievement ; economies of scale …A large school consolidation reform in the Netherlands changed minimum school size rules underlying public funding. The … of schools implies, for a given number of pupils, an increase in average school size. We present evidence that in our …