In 1994 the city of Tel Aviv replaced its existing school integration program based on inter-district busing, with a … of this program on high school outcomes while distinguishing the effect of choice on individual students from general … the choice program had significant general equilibrium effects on high school dropout rates, matriculation rates and …

disadvantaged students if additional time in school enables them to catch up with their more privileged counterparts. However, if …

This paper investigates the long-run impacts of court-ordered school desegregation on an array of adult socioeconomic … the neighborhood attributes, school quality resources, and coincident policies that prevailed at the time these children … 2SLS and sibling-difference estimates indicate that school desegregation and the accompanied increases in school quality …

Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went … countries. Relying on panel estimation with country fixed effects, we identify the effect of school autonomy from within …-country changes in the average share of schools with autonomy over key elements of school operations. Our results show that autonomy …

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) targeted substantial School Improvement Grants (SIGs) to the … nation's "persistently lowest achieving" public schools (i.e., up to $2 million per school annually over 3 years) but … required schools accepting these awards to implement a federally prescribed school-reform model. Schools that met the "lowest …

Several recent education reform measures, including the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), couple school choice …-performing schools. We use the introduction of NCLB in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District to determine if the choice component had … their current NCLB school. We then use the lottery assignment of students to chosen schools to test if changed choices led …

The option to obtain a General Education Development (GED) certificate changes the incentives facing high school … students. This paper evaluates the effect of three different GED policy innovations on high school graduation rates. A six … high school dropout rates. The introduction of a GED certification program in high schools in Oregon produced a four …