We study the relationship between school characteristics and housing prices in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina … between 1994 and 2001. During this period, the school district was operating under a court-imposed desegregation order and … redrew a number of school boundaries. We use two different sources of variation to disentangle the effect of schools and …

This paper provides the first causal evidence about how elected local school boards affect student segregation across … schools. The key identification challenge is that the composition of a school board is potentially correlated with unobserved … determinants of school segregation, such as the pattern of household sorting and the degree to which boards are geographically …

, focusing on the use of suspensions. We use school discipline measures from the Civil Rights Data Collection and rely on the … timing of pilot implementation of CEP across states to assess how disciplinary infractions evolve within a school as it … adopts CEP. We find modest reductions in suspension rates among elementary and middle but not high school students. While we …

Schools (CPS). Roughly half of the students within CPS opt out of their assigned high school to attend other neighborhood … schools or special career academies and magnet schools. Access to school choice dramatically increases student sorting by … of school choice) are no more likely to graduate on average than students in more isolated areas. We find no evidence …

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 … stronger predictors of private school attendance as public school expenditure falls. Income becomes increasingly important in …

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

teacher quality that are not systematically related to school resources. Finally, alternative performance incentive policies …

This paper estimates the effects of school quality - - measured by the pupil-teacher ratio, the average term length … between the return to education and measures of school quality is similar for blacks and whites. Since improvements in school … reinforces a causal interpretation of the link between school quality and earnings. We also find that returns to schooling are …

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 …