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 …

opening of a nearby charter school. While I find small effects on turnover overall, difficult to staff schools (low …

individuals go to school and accumulate skill valued in a perfectly competitive labor market. To this it adds one ingredient …: school reputation in the spirit of Holmstrom (1982). The first result is that if schools cannot select students based upon … are allowed to select on ability, then competition leads to stratification by parental income, increased transmission of …

This paper uses data from the implementation of a district-wide public school choice plan in Mecklenburg County, North … Carolina to estimate preferences for school characteristics and examine their implications for the local educational market. We … attached to a school's mean test score increases with student's income and own academic ability. We also find considerable …

Many school choice proposals would enable parents to choose among public school districts in their area, though not … and parents among schools; easier choice will encourage competition among schools, forcing them into higher productivity … public school districts in metropolitan areas measured by a Herfindahl index on enrollment shares. The exogenous variation is …

Arguments in favor of school choice depend on the idea that competition between schools improves the quality of … education. However, we have almost no empirical evidence on whether competition actually affects school quality. In this study …, I examine the effects of inter-school competition on public schools by using exogenous variation in the availability and …

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 …

teachers who raise a schools' ability to attract students. Thus, in the long term, school choice would affect who became (and … choice (Tiebout choice, choice of private schools) and a new survey of charter school teachers, this paper finds evidence … that suggests that school choice would change the teaching profession by demanding teachers with higher quality college …

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

into schools when peer effects are present. The model predicts that competition will lead private schools to give tuition … 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 …