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 …

education, assuming that the institutional setup of the school system remains unchanged. -- Basic and college education ; skill …

acquisition costs and a second on learning and imperfect information. Using data on school responses to discrete signals embedded … in North Carolina's school accountability system, we find patterns of results inconsistent with the first model but …

acquisition costs and a second on learning and imperfect information. Using data on school responses to discrete signals embedded … in North Carolina's school accountability system, we find patterns of results inconsistent with the first model but …

of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …