Many targeted childhood interventions such as the Perry Preschool Project select eligible children based on a risk … efficient targeting in childhood interventions. We define children to be in need of an intervention if they suffer from an …

to children, which is not similar to duty in torts but draws from the state’s role in protecting vulnerable children when …

The great majority of studies on the effect of school quality on academic outcomes do not take account of changes in … student choices concerning effort if school quality, e.g. class size, changes. We show that empirical estimates of the "total …" effect of changes in school quality could be quite different from the "partial" effect holding other inputs (including …

with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for … example, that an improvement in parental outside options will reduce parental and school effort, which are partially … compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers …

and empirically, the effects of these changes on public school performance (as measured by test scores) in Milwaukee. It … effects of public school incentives and performance. In the context of a theoretical model of public school and household …

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 …

School districts in the US and around the world are increasingly moving away from traditional neighborhood school … district boundaries. This creates a market with parental demand over publicly-supplied school seats. More frequently than ever …, this market for school seats is cleared via market design solutions grounded in recent advances in matching and mechanism …