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 …

Federal No Child Left Behind' legislation, which enables students of low-performing schools to exercise public school … investigate how the introduction of school choice in North Carolina, via a dramatic increase in the number of charter schools … competition that are robust to a variety of specifications. The introduction of charter school competition causes an approximate …

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 …

School choice has become an increasingly prominent strategy for urban school districts seeking to enhance academic … advantage of these programs. To overcome this difficulty, we exploit randomized lotteries that determine high school admission …

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school … between primary and secondary school across tracked and non-tracked systems. Six international student assessments provide …

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

disadvantaged students if additional time in school enables them to catch up with their more privileged counterparts. However, if …

School choice plans in many cities grant students higher priority for some (but not all) seats at their neighborhood …. While Boston's school choice plan gives priority to neighborhood applicants for half of each school's seats, the intended … neighborhood priority, the outcome of Boston's implementation of a 50-50 school split is nearly identical to a system without …

Using data on student outcomes and school choice lotteries from a low-income urban school district, we examine how … school choice can affect student outcomes through increased motivation and personal effort as well as through improved school …. The effects are largest for male students entering high school, whose truancy rates decline by 21% in the months after …