This paper: i) estimates the effect that going to a better school has on students' academic achievement, and ii …) explores whether this intervention induces behavioral responses on the part of children, their parents, and the school system …'s high school educational system. For the second, we use data from a specialized survey of children, parents, teachers and …

We study the impact of a public school choice lottery in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools on college enrollment and degree … school. Using rich administrative data on peers, teachers, course offerings and other inputs, we show that the impacts of … choice are strongly predicted by gains on several measures of school quality. Gains in attainment are concentrated among …

Value-added models (VAMs) are increasingly used to measure school effectiveness. Yet random variation in school … schools. In this paper, I use random assignment from a public school choice lottery to test the predictive power of VAM … specifications. In VAMs with minimal controls and two or more years of prior data, I fail to reject the hypothesis that school …

This paper presents the first causal evidence on the effects of school accountability systems on teacher labor markets …. We exploit a 2002 change in Florida's school accountability system that exogenously shocked some schools to higher … likely to move. Using microdata from the universe of Florida public school teachers, we find strong evidence that …

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 systems aspire to delink residential location and school assignments by allowing children to apply to … school and residential choice. We consider two variants, one with an exogenous outside option and one endogenizing the … outside option by considering interactions between two adjacent towns. In both cases, school choice rules narrow the range …

An important element in considering school finance policies is that households are not passive. Instead they respond to … residential location and community choice, households base optimizing decisions on commuting costs, school quality, and land rents … income and tastes for schools. This model is used to analyze a series of conventional policy experiments, including school …

An important element in considering school finance policies is that households are not passive but instead respond to … existing urban models by incorporating multiple workplace locations, alternative public services by jurisdiction (school … qualities), and voter- determined school expenditure. In our general equilibrium model of residential location and community …

, ignoring quality differences. This focus contrasts sharply with policy considerations that almost exclusively consider school … quality issues. This paper presents basic evidence about the impact of school quality on individual earnings and on economic … considers alternative school reform policies focused on improvements in teacher quality, identifying how much change is required …