We analyze two experiments that provided direct information on school test scores to lower-income families in a public … school choice plan. We find that receiving information significantly increases the fraction of parents choosing higher … scores. Using random variation from each experiment, we find evidence that attending a higher-scoring school increases …

Public school choice programs give households a free choice of public school and provide schools incentives to compete … schools, since households' perceptions of school quality depend not only on the efforts of school personnel but also on the … analyzing an economic model of public school choice. To capture the pro-choice argument, the model assumes that a neighborhood …

A central argument for school choice is that families value the freedom to exercise choice and can make wise decisions …. This principle may underlie why lottery-based school evaluations, which exploit over-subscription due to excess demand … to these results. We evaluate the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP), a school voucher plan providing public funds for …

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 …

-random school assignments and data from Trinidad and Tobago to estimate the causal impacts of individual schools on several outcomes … impacts, we link them to parents' ranked lists of schools and employ discrete-choice models to infer preferences for school … school choice, and education interventions more broadly …

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 …

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 …

This paper presents the first causal evidence on the effects of school accountability systems on teacher labor markets …. We exploit a 2002 change in Florida's school accountability system that exogenously shocked some schools to higher … likely to move. Using microdata from the universe of Florida public school teachers, we find strong evidence that …

Value-added models (VAMs) are increasingly used to measure school effectiveness. Yet random variation in school … schools. In this paper, I use random assignment from a public school choice lottery to test the predictive power of VAM … specifications. In VAMs with minimal controls and two or more years of prior data, I fail to reject the hypothesis that school …

Using a structural life-cycle model and data on school visits from Safegraph and school closures from Burbio, we … quantify the heterogeneous impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming …-person learning for longer periods than elementary schools (implying that younger children experienced less school closures than older …