We study the relationship between school characteristics and housing prices in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina … between 1994 and 2001. During this period, the school district was operating under a court-imposed desegregation order and … redrew a number of school boundaries. We use two different sources of variation to disentangle the effect of schools and …

that, after an initial start-up period, average school quality in the charter sector is not significantly different from … that in regular public schools. Perhaps most important, the parental decision to exit a charter school is much more … sensitive to education quality than the decision to exit a regular public school, consistent with the notion that the …

School choice policies may improve productivity if parents choose well-run schools, but not if parents primarily choose …

, focusing on the use of suspensions. We use school discipline measures from the Civil Rights Data Collection and rely on the … timing of pilot implementation of CEP across states to assess how disciplinary infractions evolve within a school as it … adopts CEP. We find modest reductions in suspension rates among elementary and middle but not high school students. While we …

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 …

In response to widespread dissatisfaction with the schools, the 1988 Chicago School Reform Act decentralized school … governance by forming elected local school councils (LSCs) responsible for principal hiring, evaluation, and contract renewal as … well as other management functions. Subsequent legislation outlined circumstances in which the district could reclaim …

selection of charter management organizations that open additional schools raised average charter school effectiveness over time …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 …

variety of school strategies and outcomes. In this paper, we collect unparalleled data on the inner-workings of 35 charter … schools and correlate these data with credible estimates of each school's effectiveness. We find that traditionally collected … teachers with an advanced degree -- are not correlated with school effectiveness. In stark contrast, we show that an index of …

opening of a nearby charter school. While I find small effects on turnover overall, difficult to staff schools (low …