Texas students, disentangles racial composition effects from other aspects of school quality and from differences in student …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 …

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 …

Using exogenous secondary school assignments to remove self-selection bias to schools and peers within schools, I … have better academic achievement, within-school short-run increases in peer achievement improve outcomes only at high …-achievement schools. Short-run (direct) peer quality accounts for only one tenth of school value-added on average, but at least one …

-teacher relationships as well as students' overall satisfaction in school, and lessens teachers' fatigue. We find, however, no effect on …

whether the abilities and specialty preferences of a medical school class affect a student's academic achievement in medical … school and his choice of specialty. We mitigate the selection problem by including school-specific fixed effects, and show … school-specific fixed effects are added to control for the endogeneity of a peer group. We find no evidence that peer effects …

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 …

This paper presents evidence on the quality of schooling by race and ethnic origin in the United States. Although … substantial racial segregation across schools exists, the average pupil-teacher ratio is approximately the same for black and … and Hispanics are less likely to use computers at school and at work. The implications of these differences in school …

School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward effective schools and punish … City's centralized high school assignment mechanism. We use applicants' rank-ordered choice lists to measure preferences … and to construct selection-corrected estimates of treatment effects on test scores and high school graduation. We also …

Does a school district that expands school choice provide better outcomes for students than a neighborhood …-based assignment system? This paper studies the Zones of Choice (ZOC) program, a school choice initiative of the Los Angeles Unified … School District (LAUSD) that created small high school markets in some neighborhoods but left attendance-zone boundaries in …