instrumental variable approach (based on local supply of schools). In a second step, we carefully examine the influence of …

Value-added data are an increasingly common evaluation tool for schools and teachers. Many school districts have …

grouping of students in schools. This evidence suggests that the choice between estimators is most consequential under …

Value-added data are an increasingly common evaluation tool for schools and teachers. Many school districts have …

educational services more effectively than do small independent schools. Skeptics counter that large, centralized operations … create hard-to-manage bureaucracies and foster diseconomies of scale and that small schools are more effective at promoting … scaling up the best schools has proven to be a particularly difficult problem. If there are policies that would make it easier …

In the past fifty years, a voluminous literature estimating the value of schools through capitalization in home prices … (map) and implementation. We find significant changes in values for homes redistricted to or from lower-performing schools …