charter and public school students and simulate charter school entry and student test scores were binding caps on charters … school students is marginal, and iv) lifting caps on charter schools would more than double entry and cause increases in mean … test scores similar to those under the capped scenario. -- School choice ; Charter schools ; Education ; Structural …

This paper argues that school grades cannot be interpreted solely as a reward for a given school performance, since … elementary education. The data for three entire school cohorts is analyzed - approximately 140,000 individuals. …

This paper studies the evolution of school segregation in Sweden in the aftermath of the 1992 universal school voucher … school segregation. In particular, it exploits variation in school choice opportunities across municipalities, and provides … descriptive evidence that in regions where school choice has become more prevalent, school segregation between immigrants and …

Extant research on school entry and compulsory schooling laws finds that these policies increase the high school … the evolution of postsecondary impacts of the interaction of school entry and compulsory schooling laws in Michigan. We … employ a regression-discontinuity (RD) design using longitudinal administrative data to examine effects on high school …

-variable approach that exploits an exogenous shock to the Catholic school system, we show that the positive correlation between Catholic …

students lag behind their foreign peers on standardized tests, as the policy problem. School choice, specifically charter … school policy, has emerged as a potential remedy. School choice is hypothesized to have both participant and systemic … studies of this subject. School level data from Ohio are analyzed to estimate if traditional public schools potentially …

There is a persistent debate over the role of scale of operations in education. Some argue that school franchises offer … that further disaggregating school franchise widens the larger franchise advantage. We conclude that policies oriented … toward creating incentives for private school owners to join or start up a franchise may have the potential for improving …