Studies of the charter school sector typically focus on head-to-head comparisons of charter and traditional schools at … a point in time, but the expansion of parental choice and relaxation of constraints on school operations is unlikely to … raise school quality overnight. Rather, the success of the reform depends in large part on whether parental choices induce …

that, after an initial start-up period, average school quality in the charter sector is not significantly different from … that in regular public schools. Perhaps most important, the parental decision to exit a charter school is much more … sensitive to education quality than the decision to exit a regular public school, consistent with the notion that the …

Substantial uncertainty exists about the impact of school quality on the black-white achievement gap. Our results … within schools, and specific school and peer factors exert a significant effect on the growth in the achievement gap. Unequal … between grades 3 and 8. Moreover, non-random sample attrition for school changers and much higher rates of special education …

economic impacts. But, the evidence – whether from aggregate school outcomes, econometric investigations, or a variety of …

teacher quality that are not systematically related to school resources. Finally, alternative performance incentive policies …

Attention to the quality of human capital in different countries naturally leads to concerns about how school policies … or level of resources in the schools. Neither do they appear to be determined by school policies that involve … compensatory application of resources. The conventional view that school resources are relatively more important in poor countries …

Tiebout type moves to procure better school quality. Empirical research on mobility has yielded inconclusive results, no doubt …. This paper develops a general theoretical model that identifies school quality changes resulting from moving. The empirical … associated with moves from changes in school quality. The results suggest that there is a small average increase in school …