market than in school is a pivotal quantity that determines the sign (and magnitude) of different parameters of interest. Our …

student-level and school-level explanations for this difference in Massachusetts. In an econometric framework that isolates … school students, while non-urban charters reduce achievement from a higher baseline. Student demographics explain some of …-urban charter schools are uniformly ineffective. Our estimates also reveal important school-level heterogeneity within the urban …

There has been minimal research on the pre-school enrollment of immigrant children. Using 1990 U.S. Census data, this … paper investigates pre-school enrollment of child immigrants, those who immigrated as children and the U.S.-born children of … immigrants. The analysis is conducted using probit analysis. Pre-school enrollment is found to vary systematically with parental …

school enrollment statistics as well as on representative individual-level data from three annual surveys of the German …

. In this paper, we study whether pupils in Primary schools in England with a wider range of school choices achieve better … between choice and achievement, but uncover a small positive association between competition and school performance. Yet, this … could be related to endogenous school location or pupil sorting. In fact, an instrumental variable strategy based on …

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 …