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 …

This study develops an analytical framework for evaluating the respective contributions of pupils, peers, and school … assess the respective importance of different educational inputs. We can distinguish school effects, that affect all pupils … irrespective of their year and grade of study, from school-grade-year effects. Identification of pupil effects separately from …

error in the peer background variable. When we correct for measurement error we find within school estimates close to the …

or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by … subtracting the causal effect of class size on performance from their total correlation. Our empirical results indicate … decentralized education finance and considerable residential mobility, exhibits regressive between-school sorting. Between-school …

nine-year school level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in 1992. Starting from a … situation where the public schools essentially were monopolists on all local school markets, the degree of privatization has … school share moderately improves short-term educational outcomes such as 9th-grade GPA and the fraction of students who …

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school … between primary and secondary school across tracked and non-tracked systems. Six international student assessments provide … performance. Therefore, there does not appear to be any equity-efficiency trade-off. …