leaders and parents of children enrolled in public schools into committees and gives these groups powers over resource … allocation, and monitoring and management of school performance. However, in a baseline survey we found that people were not …

existing teachers. A governance program that empowered parents within PTAs reduced both forms of capture. The best contract …

and Hispanics are less likely to use computers at school and at work. The implications of these differences in school …

Using rich panel data from Pakistan, we compute test score based measures of quality (School Value-Addeds or SVAs) for …. The annualized difference in learning between the best and worst performing school in the same village is 0.4 sd … illustrate using three different identification approaches. Finally, parents appear to recognize and reward SVA in the private …

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 …

School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward effective schools and punish … ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose schools based on causal effectiveness rather than peer characteristics … City's centralized high school assignment mechanism. We use applicants' rank-ordered choice lists to measure preferences …

find that the new program's enhanced mentor-parent interactions stimulate parental engagement at the community-school level …

This paper examines whether school COVID-19 policies influenced enrollment differently by student age and race …/ethnicity. Unlike much prior research, we (i) analyze enrollments for virtually the entire U.S. public school population for both the … 2020-21 and 2021-22 school years, (ii) compare enrollment trends within districts in order to isolate subgroup …

Research on centralized school assignment mechanisms often focuses on whether parents who participate in specific … literature suggests that parents may not know enough about the school options available to them to form complete preference … rankings. We develop a simple model that explains why it is not surprising that many participants in school assignment …

Court ordered desegregation plans were implemented in hundreds of US school districts nationwide from the 1960s through … school ages when a local order was implemented. These effects are strongly concentrated in the South, with largely null …