We examine the educational production function and efficiency of public school districts in Illinois. Using … in school districts. Moreover, the level of test scores, commonly used as a measure of school effectiveness, (while … related) differs substantially from our efficiency scores, and standard parametric approaches drastically underestimate school …

This paper proposes an econometric framework to consistently estimate the average partial effects (APE) of school … inputs on academic achievement when students are randomly assigned to schools within each school district but endogenously … sort across school districts. We illustrate our method by estimating the APE of single-sex schooling and class size on …

A pair of municipalities may consolidate services if they are contiguous. Traditional estimation methods assume that … each voting process is independent. Instead we propose a new estimation procedure that allows the probability of …

The central vs. local nature of high-school exit exam systems can have important repercussions on the labor market. By … high-school grades is indeed 6 percent when obtained on central exams but less than 2 percent when obtained on local exams …