-Mecklenburg Public School District (CMS) and a field experiment we designed and implemented as part of the district's 2006 school choice … plan to examine how transparent information on school-level academic performance affects the test scores of the schools … with transparent information on the academic achievement at schools with their school choice forms results in significantly …

school choice plan. We find that receiving information significantly increases the fraction of parents choosing higher …We analyze two experiments that provided direct information on school test scores to lower-income families in a public … scores. Using random variation from each experiment, we find evidence that attending a higher-scoring school increases …

, improving the efficiency of school seats allocation. I show that parents of low-ability males select schools with lower peer …Expanding parental choice in education may increase system-wide productivity if parents select schools that form a … specifically good match with their children. I investigate the effect of attending a preferred school on student achievement in …

I show that parents select schools by considering attributes of the student-school match that improve the learning … outcomes beyond average school quality. Using the centralized algorithm for offers to primary school in London, I compare the … most-preferred school versus an institution ranked lower increases achievement by 0.10 SD beyond school value-added among …

today, representing waste in school resources. We investigate whether reducing parent-school information gaps can improve … information to parents via weekly and monthly text messages. Our 18-month intervention raised average math GPA by 0.09 of a … outcomes that are early-warning signals for grade retention and dropout. We conducted an experiment in low-income schools in …