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 …

We present a model in which students can influence their priority in a school choice mechanism through a first …

This paper investigates the effect of a policy-induced increase in public school competition on private school … enrollment and budget outcomes. I exploit a natural experiment created by the introduction of an open enrollment policy that … expanded public school choice opportunities and increased competitive pressure on private schools. Using a new data set …

Dozens of school districts and college admissions systems around the world have reformed their admissions rules in …

Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging three alternative …