This paper develops and estimates an equilibrium model of charter school entry and school choice. In the model … additional school options, and they benefit non-white, low-income, and middle-school students the most. Further, policies that …

in school quality and positive sorting between households and schools are, together, no less important. The analysis also … education in East Africa requires policies that go beyond raising average school quality and should attend to the distribution … of school quality as well as assortative matching between households and schools …

Parents and students from different socioeconomic backgrounds value differently school characteristics, but the reasons … behind this preference heterogeneity are not well understood. In the context of the centralized school assignment system in … Mexico City, this study analyzes how a large household income shock affects choices over high school tracks exploiting the …

Even as primary-school enrollments have increased in most low-income countries, levels of learning remain low and … access to skilled teachers brings more children into school and increases test-scores in language and mathematics. These …

a larger reduction in school funding, and (ii) appear to have exited public schools partially in reaction to increased …

-generations model with endogenous school choice in which the quality of a country's education system determines how well skill supply …

School enrollment has universally increased over the past 25 years in low-income countries. However, enrolling in … school does not guarantee that children learn. A large share of children in low-income countries learn little, and they …