The 2010 primary school reform in the UK aimed at giving schools more autonomy and freedom from local council's control …, by giving them the option to become academies. Once converted, schools need to choose between remaining a standalone …. Survey data on academies suggest that schools belonging to chains are more likely to change leadership and entrust the …

well understood yet. I study how local schools affect the educational achievement of low-income students when their … natural experiment which caused little displacement of local families and changed the composition of more deprived …-age students. I compare the achievement of students in schools of the same neighborhood but located at different distances from the …

In this paper we discuss the importance of families for understanding economic inequality. Family structure can in … principle be an amplifier or mitigator of economic inequality. We describe three channels on how families shape economic … inequality. First, how people match to form families matters for inequality across families. Second, parental investments in …

Expanding parental choice in education may increase system-wide productivity if parents select schools that form a … London primary schools. I exploit as good as random variation in admission to preferred schools arising from centralised …-added. Results suggest that parents select schools that are specifically effective in increasing their children's achievement …

How much do schools differ in their effectiveness? Recent studies that seek to answer this question account for student … sorting using random assignment generated by central allocation mechanisms or oversubscribed schools. However, the resulting … universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects …

land scarcity. Our econometric analyses show that youth from families with larger land holding are less likely to choose …