educational services more effectively than do small independent schools. Skeptics counter that large, centralized operations … create hard-to-manage bureaucracies and foster diseconomies of scale and that small schools are more effective at promoting … scaling up the best schools has proven to be a particularly difficult problem. If there are policies that would make it easier …

followed contributed to a significant increase in costs and, in many cases, to the closure of Catholic schools.We document that …

probability early dropout and grade repetition. We complement our analysis with a qualitative case study comparison of schools …

In the past fifty years, a voluminous literature estimating the value of schools through capitalization in home prices … (map) and implementation. We find significant changes in values for homes redistricted to or from lower-performing schools …

neighborhoods associated with high-quality schools …

subassignment among them if, given their priorities at schools, other students together cannot exclude any of them from her …

In the past fifty years, a voluminous literature estimating the value of schools through capitalization in home prices …-performing schools to lower-performing schools decrease in value by three to five percent. However, many of the redistricted properties …