This paper: i) estimates the effect that going to a better school has on students' academic achievement, and ii …) explores whether this intervention induces behavioral responses on the part of children, their parents, and the school system …'s high school educational system. For the second, we use data from a specialized survey of children, parents, teachers and …

allowing one to address self-selection bias and estimate the causal effect of attending a single-sex school versus a similar … coeducational school. While students (particularly females) with strong expressed preferences for single-sex schools benefit, most …

document a substantial variation in the number of applicants per school, with some schools having fewer than five applicants … the school. We show that the demographic characteristics of schools strongly predict the number of applicants to the … school in the expected direction. Interestingly, the geographic location of the school is an extremely strong predictor of …

school increases achievement by 0.198 standard deviations in reading and 0.230 standard deviations in math, per year of …

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 …

Using exogenous secondary school assignments to remove self-selection bias to schools and peers within schools, I … have better academic achievement, within-school short-run increases in peer achievement improve outcomes only at high …-achievement schools. Short-run (direct) peer quality accounts for only one tenth of school value-added on average, but at least one …

We develop a framework that may be used to determine the degree to which a school choice program may harm public school …-skimming" effect is increasing in the degree of heterogeneity within schools, the school choice takeup rate of strong students relative … high school graduation rate of the students who would remain in public school. We employ NELS:88 data to measure the …

The time that children spend in school varies across countries. Do these differences explain international gaps in … productivity of instructional time is higher in countries which implemented school accountability measures or that gave schools …

We study the impact of a public school choice lottery in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools on college enrollment and degree … school. Using rich administrative data on peers, teachers, course offerings and other inputs, we show that the impacts of … choice are strongly predicted by gains on several measures of school quality. Gains in attainment are concentrated among …