Students often make school choice decisions with inadequate information. We present results from delivering information … with universal secondary school choice. We provided guidance on application strategies and reported the selectivity and …

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 …

Using a structural life-cycle model and data on school visits from Safegraph and school closures from Burbio, we … quantify the heterogeneous impact of school closures during the Corona crisis on children affected at different ages and coming …-person learning for longer periods than elementary schools (implying that younger children experienced less school closures than older …

' choices of school sector. We document four central facts. First, public school enrollment declined noticeably in fall 2020 … driven by homeschooling rates jumping substantially, driven largely by families with children in elementary school. Third …

In this paper, we use a unique two-stage experiment that randomized access to school vouchers across both markets and … students in rural India to estimate the revealed preference value of school choice. In the first step of the research design …, we develop an empirical model of school choice subject to liquidity and credit constraints that is estimated using data …

Is a school's impact on high-stakes test scores a good measure of its overall impact on students? Do parents value … school impacts on tests, longer-run outcomes, or both? To answer the first question, we exploit quasi-random school … assignments and data from Trinidad and Tobago. We construct exogenous instruments for each individual school and estimate the …

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 the first causal evidence on the effects of school accountability systems on teacher labor markets …. We exploit a 2002 change in Florida's school accountability system that exogenously shocked some schools to higher … likely to move. Using microdata from the universe of Florida public school teachers, we find strong evidence that …

We analyze two experiments that provided direct information on school test scores to lower-income families in a public … school choice plan. We find that receiving information significantly increases the fraction of parents choosing higher … scores. Using random variation from each experiment, we find evidence that attending a higher-scoring school increases …

The incentives and outcomes generated by public school choice depend to a large degree on parents' choice behavior … there is little evidence as to why. We use a field experiment in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public School district (CMS) to …. We provided simplified information sheets on school average test scores or test scores coupled with estimated odds of …