"We develop a framework that may be used to determine the degree to which a school choice program may harm public … school stayers by luring the best students to other schools. This framework results in a simple formula showing that the … "cream-skimming" effect is increasing in the degree of heterogeneity within schools, the school choice takeup rate of strong …

"This paper: i) estimates the effect that going to a better school has on students' academic achievement, and ii …) explores whether this intervention induces behavioral responses on the part of children, their parents, and the school system …'s high school educational system. For the second, we use data from a specialized survey of children, parents, teachers and …

, implying that school choice plans may have the smallest impact on the choices of the families they are targeting. This paper …-Mecklenburg Public School District (CMS) and a field experiment we designed and implemented as part of the district's 2006 school choice … plan to examine how transparent information on school-level academic performance affects the test scores of the schools …