School choice lotteries are an important tool for allocating access to high-quality and oversubscribed public schools …. While prior evidence suggests that winning a school lottery decreases adult criminality, there is little evidence for how … school choice lotteries impact non-lottery students who are left behind at their neighborhood school. We leverage variation …

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 …

This paper measures parents' beliefs about school and peer quality, how information about each affects school choices …, and how social interactions mediate these effects. Parents underestimate school quality and overestimate peer quality …. Cross-randomized school and peer quality information combined with a spillover design shows that when parents received …

degrees for men and women. We find substantial variation across degrees, and evidence that OLS overestimates the returns to … increased wage rates, though hours play an important role in some degrees, such as medicine, especially for women. Third, we … degrees. We show annual earnings and hours worked while enrolled in graduate school vary a lot by gender and degree. Finally …

individual characteristics and bounding exercises for selection on unobservables. Smaller class sizes and a school culture where … students have a strong sense of belonging are important school-level predictors of having a K-12 natural mentor …

School assignment policies are a key lever to increase access to high performing schools and to promote racial and … school for applicants to the METCO program. I compare those with and without offers to enroll in suburban schools. I use a … characteristics from birth records and application data. Attending a suburban school boosts 10th grade Math and English test scores by …

for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers … of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample was invited to attend with a friend. The intervention had a … were stronger among women from religious or caste groups with social norms that restrict female mobility …

their primary-school teachers were disproportionately female. Impacts are lifelong: female students taught by female … teachers were more likely to move up the educational ladder by completing high school and attending college, and had higher …

School systems around the world use achievement tests to assign students to schools, classes, and instructional … resources, including remediation. Using a regression discontinuity design, we study a Florida policy that places middle school …