acquisition costs and a second on learning and imperfect information. Using data on school responses to discrete signals embedded … in North Carolina's school accountability system, we find patterns of results inconsistent with the first model but …

of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …

the average urban school district increasing per pupil expenditures by over 70 percent between 1916 and 1924. We provide … links individuals to both the quality of the city school district they attended as a child and their adult outcomes. Using … plausibly exogenous growth in school spending generated by anti-German sentiment after World War I, we find that school …

particularly large when the elderly residents and the school-age population are from different racial groups. Variation in the size … of the school-age population does not result in proportionate changes in education spending, so students in states with … larger school-age populations receive lower per-student spending than those in states with smaller numbers of potential …

An important element in considering school finance policies is that households are not passive. Instead they respond to … residential location and community choice, households base optimizing decisions on commuting costs, school quality, and land rents … income and tastes for schools. This model is used to analyze a series of conventional policy experiments, including school …

We review the theoretical, computational, and empirical research on school vouchers, with a focus on the latter. In …

private school increases with both income and ability, and, among private schools, the propensity to attend the highest …-tuition school rises with both income and ability. Within private schools, tuition declines with student ability, with a substantial … stronger predictors of private school attendance as public school expenditure falls. Income becomes increasingly important in …

To study the effects of ability grouping on school competition, we develop a theoretical and computational model of …