individuals go to school and accumulate skill valued in a perfectly competitive labor market. To this it adds one ingredient …: school reputation in the spirit of Holmstrom (1982). The first result is that if schools cannot select students based upon … are allowed to select on ability, then competition leads to stratification by parental income, increased transmission of …

and empirically, the effects of these changes on public school performance (as measured by test scores) in Milwaukee. It … effects of public school incentives and performance. In the context of a theoretical model of public school and household …

This paper uses data from the implementation of a district-wide public school choice plan in Mecklenburg County, North … Carolina to estimate preferences for school characteristics and examine the ir implications for the local educational market … attached to a school's mean test score increases with student's income and own academic ability. We also find considerable …

This paper uses data from the implementation of a district-wide public school choice plan in Mecklenburg County, North … Carolina to estimate preferences for school characteristics and examine their implications for the local educational market. We … attached to a school's mean test score increases with student's income and own academic ability. We also find considerable …

Many school choice proposals would enable parents to choose among public school districts in their area, though not … and parents among schools; easier choice will encourage competition among schools, forcing them into higher productivity … public school districts in metropolitan areas measured by a Herfindahl index on enrollment shares. The exogenous variation is …

The effect of increasing school resources on educational outcomes is a central issue in the debate on improving school … quality. This paper uses a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which allowed … improvements rather than school materials, suggesting that teachers and principals may be a central determinant of school quality …

Advocates of school choice policies claim that private school competition would make public schools more efficient. I … evaluate the effect of private school competition on public schools' test scores in Arizona. Private schooling is treated as … schooling. Moreover, I build grade-specific measures of private school competition. I find a strong positive effect of private …

This paper re-evaluates the effect of US public school competition on children's educational achievement based on a … local competition measures driven by demand side sorting of households among school districts, I examine the changes of … large longitudinal school profile composed from the Common Core of Data (CCD at NCES). To reconcile the endogenous shift of …

school districts. The structure of the Utah Charter School provides a natural experiment to study a unique way that … competition by new charter schools. We find that total capital outlay and spending on improving existing structures increases with … charter competition, but new construction and instructional spending does not increase at a statistically significant level …