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 …

variety of school strategies and outcomes. In this paper, we collect unparalleled data on the inner-workings of 35 charter … schools and correlate these data with credible estimates of each school's effectiveness. We find that traditionally collected … teachers with an advanced degree -- are not correlated with school effectiveness. In stark contrast, we show that an index of …

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

We evaluate the long-term effect of a “girl-friendly” primary school program in Burkina Faso, using a regression … non-selected schools. These upgraded schools are effective at getting children into school, getting children to start … school on time, and keeping children in school longer. Overall, we find that the schools sustain the large impacts observed …

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 …

percent of U.S. youths had high school diplomas in 1910, but more than 50 percent did by 1940. By the mid-1950s the United …-series variation within the United States. The areas of the United States that led in secondary school education (the Far West, Great … income or wealth, also fostered the extension of education to the secondary school level …

determined whether they would attend an academically oriented grammar school or a lower level secondary school. The reform … proceeded at an uneven pace in different areas, so that both secondary school systems coexist during the 1960s and 70s. The … selective school system on student achievement. Previous studies analyzing this transition have typically used a value …

A school that is more productive is one that produces higher achievement in its pupils for each dollar it spends. In … this paper, I comprehensively review how school choice might affect productivity. I begin by describing the importance of … school productivity, then explain the economic logic that suggests that choice will affect productivity, and finish by …

that, after an initial start-up period, average school quality in the charter sector is not significantly different from … that in regular public schools. Perhaps most important, the parental decision to exit a charter school is much more … sensitive to education quality than the decision to exit a regular public school, consistent with the notion that the …

’ choices of school sector. We document four central facts. First, public school enrollment declined noticeably in fall 2020 … driven by homeschooling rates jumping substantially, driven largely by families with children in elementary school. Third …