This paper uses data from the implementation of a district-wide public school choice plan in Mecklenburg County, North … Carolina to estimate preferences for school characteristics and examine the ir implications for the local educational market … attached to a school's mean test score increases with student's income and own academic ability. We also find considerable …

participation and urban areas with larger numbers of alternative school districts appear to evoke a larger enrollment response. This … desegregation program and racial composition effects on academic, social, and labor market outcomes. The evidence on school …

schools in the Wake County Public School System to estimate the academic and behavioral effects of being reassigned to a … different school and, separately, of shifts in peer characteristics. We rule out all but substantively small effects of … transitioning to a different school as a result of reassignment on test scores, course grades and chronic absenteeism. In contrast …

of primary education on school enrollment, drop-outs and completion rates. The empirical results show that for children … in elementary school one additional grade of primary education has a negative impact on enrollment rate, while the effect … underdeveloped countries parents do not have incentive to send children to school given the high perceived present economic value of …

Children growing up in disadvantaged neighborhoods tend to perform significantly worse in school compared to children … significant; the same applies to GPA and admission to upper secondary school. For test scores in Swedish language there is no …

nationwide and within-district school rankings. Using data from the universe of school performance from 2011-2016, we identify … from the terminal year of primary school. …

This paper uses data from the implementation of a district-wide public school choice plan in Mecklenburg County, North … Carolina to estimate preferences for school characteristics and examine their implications for the local educational market. We … attached to a school's mean test score increases with student's income and own academic ability. We also find considerable …

This paper uses data from the implementation of a district-wide public school choice plan in Mecklenburg County, North … Carolina to estimate preferences for school characteristics and examine their implications for the local educational market. We … attached to a school's mean test score increases with student's income and own academic ability. We also find considerable …