public and private schools. Attending a private subsidized school is associated with increased standardized test scores, but … the apparent impact is relatively small. Controlling for school choice using a supply-side instrument (school availability … at community level) implies substantially larger impacts of the voucher system. The effect of parents' education on …

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

We show that, when school quality is measured by the educational standard and attaining the standard requires costly … relatively high cost of effort, who would find the high standards of the public school excessively demanding. With the key …

This paper analyzes housing market reactions to the release of previously unpublished information on school quality …. Using the sharp discontinuity in the information environment allows us to study price changes within school catchment areas …, thus controlling for neighborhood unobservables. We find a substantial housing market reaction to publication of school …

these considerations, school performance is an important determinant of school choice. Thus, parents appear to act 'as if … improve the quality of the education provided. Surveys in Chile have suggested that parents are not aware of the performance … of their children's schools. In this paper, we assess the effect of public information of school quality on the school …