Does a school district that expands school choice provide better outcomes for students than a neighborhood …-based assignment system? This paper studies the Zones of Choice (ZOC) program, a school choice initiative of the Los Angeles Unified … School District (LAUSD) that created small high school markets in some neighborhoods but left attendance-zone boundaries in …

Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging a student fixed … effects design, we explore how the massive scale-up of a Florida private school choice program affected public school students … suspension rates) attending public schools closer to more pre-program private school options. Effects are particularly pronounced …

Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging a student fixed … effects design, we explore how the massive scale-up of a Florida private school choice program affected public school students … suspension rates) attending public schools closer to more pre-program private school options. Effects are particularly pronounced …

This paper develops and estimates an empirical framework that evaluates the impact of charter school choice on … Carolina's lifting of its statewide charter school cap raised the average public school's value-added by around 0.01 standard …,000 per charter school enrollee. We further show that competition drives the aggregate gains; test score impacts on students …