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 …

The literature suggests that competition among schools might increase quality. However, not much empirical evidence is … present as only a few countries allow competition at a large scale. One exception is the Netherlands. Free parental choice is … Netherlands we show that there is a relation between competition and student achievement in upper secondary education, but that it …

Geographic school admissions criteria bind residential and school choices for some parents, and could create … the policy decision of geographic versus non-geographic school admissions criteria has important implications for … equilibrium outcomes in school and housing markets. Geographic admissions criteria segregate schools, but integrate neighborhoods …

We provide empirical evidence on the determinants of voter turnout using the randomized outcomes of a school choice … lottery. We show that those losing the lottery to attend their first-choice school are significantly more likely to vote in … the ensuing school board election than lottery winners. The effect of losing the school choice lottery on voting is …

We study self-selection in centralized school choice, a strategy that takes place when students submit preferences … schools are zero, she may not rank them even when the mechanism is strategyproof. Using data from the Mexico City high school … mistake. These findings question the effectiveness of equal access provided by school choice, and we argue it can be improved …

Geographic school admissions criteria bind residential and school choices for some parents, and could create … the policy decision of geographic versus non-geographic school admissions criteria has important implications for … equilibrium outcomes in school and housing markets. Geographic admissions criteria segregate schools, but integrate neighborhoods …