This paper presents an overview and interpretation of the literature relating school quality to students' subsequent … with varying school quality. A key insight of the model is that changes in school quality may affect the characteristics of … education. We then summarize the literature that relates school resources to students' earnings and educational attainment. A …

education. An implicit assumption is that more time in school may translate into greater earnings potential. None of these … literature, we examine the interaction between school quality and policy-induced returns to schooling, using temporally …-available school quality measures from Card and Krueger (1992). We find that additional compulsory schooling, via either schooling or …

School choice policies may improve productivity if parents choose well-run schools, but not if parents primarily choose …

The role of schooling and school quality in the economy has become very confused, in part because of attempts to argue … different positions on educational policy. Research demonstrates that school quality has a strong impact on individual earnings …, on the distribution of income, and on overall economic growth. In contrast to these long run factors, today's school …

Uncovering the effects of school racial composition on achievement is difficult, because racial mixing in the schools … integration of schools legally inspired by Brown v. Board of Education are very broad, here we focus more narrowly on how school … Texas students, disentangles racial composition effects from other aspects of school quality and from differences in student …

model describing the joint distribution of school value-added, bias, and lottery compliance. We use this model to assess the … ordinary least squares and lottery-based instrumental variables estimates of VAM parameters. The hybrid estimation strategy … provides a general recipe for combining non-experimental and quasi-experimental estimates. While still biased, hybrid school …

Improving the nutritional content of public school meals is a topic of intense policy interest. A main motivation is … the health of school children, and, in particular, the rising childhood obesity rate. Medical and nutrition literature has … takes advantage of frequent lunch vendor contract turnover. Students at schools that contract with a healthy school lunch …