model describing the joint distribution of school value-added, bias, and lottery compliance. We use this model to assess the … ordinary least squares and lottery-based instrumental variables estimates of VAM parameters. The hybrid estimation strategy … provides a general recipe for combining non-experimental and quasi-experimental estimates. While still biased, hybrid school …

This paper presents an overview and interpretation of the literature relating school quality to students' subsequent … with varying school quality. A key insight of the model is that changes in school quality may affect the characteristics of … education. We then summarize the literature that relates school resources to students' earnings and educational attainment. A …

Uncovering the effects of school racial composition on achievement is difficult, because racial mixing in the schools … integration of schools legally inspired by Brown v. Board of Education are very broad, here we focus more narrowly on how school … Texas students, disentangles racial composition effects from other aspects of school quality and from differences in student …

The role of schooling and school quality in the economy has become very confused, in part because of attempts to argue … different positions on educational policy. Research demonstrates that school quality has a strong impact on individual earnings …, on the distribution of income, and on overall economic growth. In contrast to these long run factors, today's school …

School choice policies may improve productivity if parents choose well-run schools, but not if parents primarily choose …

to pay to reside in a community with superior schools. Controlling for neighborhood characteristics and school financial … inputs, she finds that a 5 percent increase in the average test scores of an elementary school leads to a 2.1 percent … increase in the price of houses in that school's attendance district …

We study how managerial practices of school principals affect student performance and aspirations. We link … administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the … World Management Survey methodology. The frequent turnover of school principals over this period allows us to causally …

school quality cannot be easily captured by any type of rankings because students with differing characteristics and … abilities benefit from different school inputs. To do so, I estimate a dynamic structural model of cognitive skills accumulation … each student would have achieved in every school in the sample. Notably, the school environment has a crucial impact on the …

In this paper, I relax one of the common assumptions made in standard school choice problems by allowing students to … rank not just schools, but school-cohort sized pairs. The intuition for this extension is the observation that a school at … maximum capacity is not the same object, from a student’s perspective, as the same school that is only partially filled …