"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 …

implied in earlier research at the elementary and secondary school level, but important outliers exist"--National Bureau of …

"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 …