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 …

-added school from among the set of feasible schools, then this reallocation of students would increase academic achievement …

teachers. Our empirical strategy employs Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff (2014a) with school-year fixed effects as an additional …

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 …

report results showing a positive impact of the extra resources on school attendance and performance in Mathematics (though …

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 …

A school finance equalization program established in Mississippi in 1920 failed to help many of the state's Black … students - an outcome that was typical in the segregated U.S. South (Horace Mann Bond, 1934). In majority-Black school … Black schools, those in majority-Black districts continued to experience extremely low - and even worsening - school funding …