of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …

and school-by-grade fixed effects in addition to observable family and school characteristics. The analysis also addresses …. Moreover, students throughout the school test score distribution appear to benefit from higher achieving schoolmates. On the …

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 …

for applicants favored by affirmative action indeed show no gains in reading and negative effects of exam school … benefit from affirmative-action, a pattern inconsistent with mismatch. We show that Chicago exam school effects are explained … by the schools attended by applicants who are not offered an exam school seat. Specifically, mismatch arises because exam …

sorting. In our empirical application, we obtain lower bound estimates of the importance of school and commuting zone inputs … for education and wages. A school/location combination at the 90th versus 10th percentile of the school/location quality … distribution increases the high school graduation probability and college enrollment probability by at least .06 and .17 …

Parental involvement programs aim to increase school-and-parent communication and support children's overall learning … behavior in school. The grants did not impact parent or student behaviors. Notably, we do not find impacts of either …

We estimate the longer-run effects of attending an effective high school (one that improves a combination of test … from attending effective schools. However, the least advantaged students experience the largest improvements in high-school … graduation, college-going, and school-based arrests. These patterns are driven by the least advantaged students benefiting the …

school increases achievement by 0.198 standard deviations in reading and 0.230 standard deviations in math, per year of …