Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has declared school voucher programs constitutional, the many unanswered questions … concerning the potential effects of school choice will become especially pressing. Contributors to this volume draw on state …-of-the-art economic methods to answer some of these questions, investigating the ways in which school choice affects a wide range of …

Compensation of K-12 school principals, and the effect that it has on the performance of the schools they lead, has …-2005 school years. Controlling for differences in cost of living across districts, a positive correlation between principal … school’s students on free and reduced lunch and teacher salaries were found to have a larger impact on student performance …

Recent studies in Economics have found that the idiosyncratic effect of school leaders may be an important factor in … largely unexplored in this literature. Employing a unique administrative panel data set from the Victorian public school …