We study the impact of a public school choice lottery in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools on college enrollment and degree … school. Using rich administrative data on peers, teachers, course offerings and other inputs, we show that the impacts of … choice are strongly predicted by gains on several measures of school quality. Gains in attainment are concentrated among …

universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects … that may better reflect the effects of school practices. We find significant effects of schools on scores in high …-stakes college entrance exams: a 1 standard deviation increase in school quality leads to 0.06-0.08 standard deviations higher …