. After two years, we find (a) no impact on student test scores from providing school grants, (b) some evidence of positive … than the sum of the individual effects. Our results suggest that combining spending on school inputs (which is the default …

This paper uses computable general equilibrium simulations to investigate the effect of private school vouchers. It … explicit political process at the school district level; (ii) embedding the private/public school choice in a Tiebout model in … which agents also choose between communities that provide different public school/property tax packages; and (iii) allowing …

acquisition costs and a second on learning and imperfect information. Using data on school responses to discrete signals embedded … in North Carolina's school accountability system, we find patterns of results inconsistent with the first model but …

-based measures of school quality, including infrastructure, pupil-teacher ratios, and monitoring. However, teacher absence continues … schools. Improvements in school infrastructure and service conditions are not correlated with lower teacher absence. We find …

improve students' long-term outcomes. Using school district and tax records for more than one million children, we find that … students assigned to high-VA teachers in primary school are more likely to attend college, earn higher salaries, and are less …

predict, we observe that treated children resort to their counterfactual level of school attendance and carpet weaving when …