In 1994 the city of Tel Aviv replaced its existing school integration program based on inter-district busing, with a … of this program on high school outcomes while distinguishing the effect of choice on individual students from general … the choice program had significant general equilibrium effects on high school dropout rates, matriculation rates and …

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

, that rule out impacts as small as 0.015 standard deviation for achievement and 1 percentage point for high school …

We examine the mortality effects of a 1947 school reform in Japan, which extended compulsory schooling from primary to … secondary school by as much as 3 years. The abolition of secondary school fees also indicates that those affected by the reform …

This paper investigates the long-run impacts of court-ordered school desegregation on an array of adult socioeconomic … the neighborhood attributes, school quality resources, and coincident policies that prevailed at the time these children … 2SLS and sibling-difference estimates indicate that school desegregation and the accompanied increases in school quality …

In the 1960s and 1970s, many states introduced grants for school districts offering kindergarten programs. This paper … early education. I find that white children aged five after the typical state reform were less likely to be high school …

The option to obtain a General Education Development (GED) certificate changes the incentives facing high school … students. This paper evaluates the effect of three different GED policy innovations on high school graduation rates. A six … high school dropout rates. The introduction of a GED certification program in high schools in Oregon produced a four …

For a variety of reasons described in the paper, improving the performance of urban school districts is more difficult … today. Two quite different bodies of research provide ideas for improving the performance of urban school districts. One … other literature. A theme of this paper is that insights from both literatures are critical to improving urban school …

Several recent education reform measures, including the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), couple school choice …-performing schools. We use the introduction of NCLB in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District to determine if the choice component had … their current NCLB school. We then use the lottery assignment of students to chosen schools to test if changed choices led …