neighborhoods with lower poverty rates. Although we had hypothesized that reading and math test scores would be higher among … children in families offered vouchers (with larger effects among younger children), the results show no significant effects on … test scores for any age group among over 5000 children ages 6 to 20 in 2002 who were assessed four to seven years after …

subsidies make college affordable even for children from poorer parental backgrounds and better schools increase human capital …

We develop a framework that may be used to determine the degree to which a school choice program may harm public school …-skimming" effect is increasing in the degree of heterogeneity within schools, the school choice takeup rate of strong students relative … high school graduation rate of the students who would remain in public school. We employ NELS:88 data to measure the …

This paper presents a productivity argument for investing in disadvantaged young children. For such investment, there …

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 …

capital of their children. We provide new evidence on the long-term (10-year) effects of cash transfers using data from … from an experiment that randomly assigned children under the age of 6 years to "early" or "late" treatment groups. Although … the early treatment group received twice as much in transfers, we find no difference between children in the two groups on …

Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992-2002, we assess whether family … disadvantaged families have higher rates of disciplinary problems, lower achievement scores, and fewer high-school completions … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in …

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 choice has become an increasingly prominent strategy for urban school districts seeking to enhance academic … advantage of these programs. To overcome this difficulty, we exploit randomized lotteries that determine high school admission … of poverty. We do, however, uncover evidence that attendance at such schools may improve a subset of non …