This paper evaluates school choice at the compulsory-school level by assessing a reform implemented in Sweden in 1992 …, which opened up for publicly funded but privately operated schools. In many local school markets, this reform led to a …, and controlling for differential pre-reform municipality trends. We find that an increase in the private-school share by …

school track suitable for their child, changing the purpose of the primary teacher's recommendation from mandatory to … rates to the higher school tracks increased substantially, with stronger responses among children from richer districts …. Simultaneously, grade repetition in the first grades of second-ary school increased dramatically, suggesting that parents choose …

causal effect of class size on school tracking outcomes after elementary school. Our identification strategy relies on the … tracked into more or less academic middle school types at about age ten based, to a large extent, on academic achievement in … elementary school. We mostly find no or small effects of class size in elementary school on receiving a recommendation or on the …

This paper evaluates average educational performance effects of an expanding independent-school sector at the … increase in the share of independent-school students between Swedish municipalities. We find that an increase in the share of … independent-school students improves average performance at the end of compulsory school as well as long-run educational outcomes …

We know surprisingly little about the influence of race-blind school admissions on student outcomes. This paper studies … a unique reform where a large, urban school district was federally mandated to adopt a race-blind lottery system to fill …-blind lotteries dramatically segregated subsequent magnet school cohorts.I show that race-blind admissions caused the more segregated …

Due to increased financial pressures following the Great Recession, a growing number of school districts have switched … from a traditional five-day school week to a four-day week schedule. While these shorter school weeks potentially help … reduce costs, this study considers the implications these school schedules have on student achievement. This study uses a …

and private schooling on student scores in Australia. We control for observable and unobservable influences, at school and …

the German state of Hessen to measure the persistence of school entry age's impact on choice of secondary school track …. Based on exogenous variation in the school entry age by birth month, we obtain regression discontinuity estimates for … different cohorts and grades up to the end of secondary education. We show that the effect of original school entry age on a …