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 …

student-teacher demographic mismatch affects high school teachers' expectations for students' educational attainment. Using a …

-teacher demographic mismatch affects high school teachers' expectations for students' educational attainment. Using a student fixed …

Black primary-school students matched to a same-race teacher perform better on standardized tests and face more … probability that he drops out of high school, particularly among the most economically disadvantaged black males. Exposure to at … identification strategies, including an instrumental variables strategy that exploits within-school, intertemporal variation in the …

matched student-school panel data covering the population of secondary school national exams over seven years. We then conduct …. -- Performance-related pay ; public sector ; matched school-student data …