School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward effective schools and punish … ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose schools based on causal effectiveness rather than peer characteristics … City's centralized high school assignment mechanism. We use applicants' rank-ordered choice lists to measure preferences …

In this paper we study the effects of the threat of school vouchers and school stigma in Florida on the performance of … "low-performing" schools using student-level data from a subset of districts. Estimates of the change in school-level high …

. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more … stringent disciplinary environments in response to their earlier-born children's poor performance in school in order to deter … such outcomes for their later-born offspring. We provide robust empirical evidence that school performance of children in …

determinant of well-being for the elderly. Most parents want at least one adult child to remain at home (e.g., so they can work on … they grow up, and parents cannot directly prevent them from doing so. We present a model where parents may strategically … attractiveness of migration for educated children. Consistent with the model, in response to the treatment we find declines in school …

Parental involvement programs aim to increase school-and-parent communication and support children’s overall learning … experiment provided information to parents about how to support their children’s learning. Overall, the interventions induced … effects among indigenous parents who have historically been discriminated and socially excluded – and improved student …

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

that would inject private-school competition and increase technical efficiencies without cream skimming. Conditioning …. However, by adding conditions like tuition constraints such as vouchers can reap the benefits of school competition without …

Improving the nutritional content of public school meals is a topic of intense policy interest. A main motivation is … the health of school children, and, in particular, the rising childhood obesity rate. Medical and nutrition literature has … takes advantage of frequent lunch vendor contract turnover. Students at schools that contract with a healthy school lunch …

and Hispanics are less likely to use computers at school and at work. The implications of these differences in school …

Uncovering the effects of school racial composition on achievement is difficult, because racial mixing in the schools … integration of schools legally inspired by Brown v. Board of Education are very broad, here we focus more narrowly on how school … Texas students, disentangles racial composition effects from other aspects of school quality and from differences in student …