Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging three alternative … schools improves reading - but not math - performance and it also decreases absenteeism of students who remain in the TPS …

School accountability systems based on high-stakes testing of students have become ubiquitous in the United States, and … whether school districts exploit this relationship by strategically altering school nutrition menus during testing periods in … an apparent attempt to artificially increase student test scores. Using detailed daily school nutrition data from a …

School accountability systems based on high-stakes testing of students have become ubiquitous in the United States, and … whether school districts exploit this relationship by strategically altering school nutrition menus during testing periods in … an apparent attempt to artificially increase student test scores. Using detailed daily school nutrition data from a …

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 …

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 …