provide low-quality education. In this paper I examine this claim using a 1947 reform that increased the minimum school …

coeducational to single-sex. I exploit these conversions to identify the causal effect of single-sex schooling holding other school … national exams and are four percentage points more likely to complete secondary school. There are also important non …

received in childhood. We assess whether this is also true for schooling inputs. Using matched Florida birth and school … administrative records, we estimate the causal effect of school quality on the gender gap in educational outcomes by contrasting …-family variation in school quality arising from family moves. Investigating middle school test scores, absences and suspensions, we …

the nature of school facility investments, whether it actually changes the physical condition of public schools, and the … and financed by local school districts, comparing districts where school capital bonds were either narrowly approved or … defeated by district voters. Overall, we find little evidence that school capital campaigns improve student achievement. Our …

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 …

strongest positive effects associate with the ultimate sanction: leadership and management changes associated with school …

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 …