high school graduates but not for college graduates, and conclude that high levels of schooling reveal true productivity …. We show that their choice of start date - based on first-observed school exit and often triggered by school vacations … dates tied to a more systematic definition of school exit, we find that employer learning is equally evident for high school …

We study the impact of a public school choice lottery in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools on college enrollment and degree … school. Using rich administrative data on peers, teachers, course offerings and other inputs, we show that the impacts of … choice are strongly predicted by gains on several measures of school quality. Gains in attainment are concentrated among …

More than one out of every five principals leaves their school each year. In some cases, these career changes are … longitudinal data from one large urban school district to study the relationship between principal turnover and school outcomes. We … find that principal turnover is, on average, detrimental to school performance. Frequent turnover of school leadership …