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 …

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 …

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 …

Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and a student fixed effect design, we … explore how the massive scale-up of a Florida private school choice program affected public school students' outcomes … degree of private school options, measured prior to the introduction of the voucher program. These benefits include higher …

.js?config=AM_HTMLorMML-full"></script>We present experimental evidence on the impact of a school choice program in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) that … provided students with a voucher to finance attending a private school of their choice. The study design featured a unique two … both the individual and the aggregate effects of school choice (including spillovers). After two and four years of the …

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 …

disadvantaged neighborhoods and serve students who are substantially poorer than the average public school student in New York City … and their effects on achievement. The policy with the most notable and robust association is a long school year--as long …

Studies of the charter school sector typically focus on head-to-head comparisons of charter and traditional schools at … a point in time, but the expansion of parental choice and relaxation of constraints on school operations is unlikely to … raise school quality overnight. Rather, the success of the reform depends in large part on whether parental choices induce …

randomized outcomes from a school choice lottery to examine if lottery outcomes affect voting behavior in a school board election … participate in the lottery. We find that losing the school choice lottery caused an increase in voter turnout among whites, while …

school tuition to estimate this key parameter. A majority of Catholic elementary schools offer discounts to families that … enroll more than one child in the school in a given year. Catholic school tuition costs therefore depend upon the interaction … of the number and spacing of a family's children with the pricing policies of the local school. This within …