This paper uses data from the implementation of a district-wide public school choice plan in Mecklenburg County, North … Carolina to estimate preferences for school characteristics and examine the ir implications for the local educational market … attached to a school's mean test score increases with student's income and own academic ability. We also find considerable …

This paper uses data from the implementation of a district-wide public school choice plan in Mecklenburg County, North … Carolina to estimate preferences for school characteristics and examine their implications for the local educational market. We … attached to a school's mean test score increases with student's income and own academic ability. We also find considerable …

This paper combines a model of parental school choice with randomized school lotteries in order to understand the … effects of being assigned to a first-choice school on academic outcomes. We outline a simple framework in which those who … place the highest weight on academics when choosing a school benefit the most academically when admitted. Although the …

remote and hybrid instruction in widening gaps in achievement by race and school poverty. We find that remote instruction was …