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 …

reduction in the use of voice to address institutional failures. School choice is premised on the idea that more exit options … of parents and students. We find that more choices of a particular type of school do lead to an increase in parental exit … to that type of school, but that the effect on voice is more complicated. Specifically, more exit options decreases the …

We present a model in which students can influence their priority in a school choice mechanism through a first …