local school districts within a metropolitan area and average test scores. She argues that choice is endogenous to school … scores, which she interprets as evidence that school choice induces greater school productivity. This paper revisits Hoxby … indicates a choice effect near zero. There is thus little evidence that schools respond to Tiebout competition by raising …

that would inject private-school competition and increase technical efficiencies without cream skimming. Conditioning …. However, by adding conditions like tuition constraints such as vouchers can reap the benefits of school competition without …

into schools when peer effects are present. The model predicts that competition will lead private schools to give tuition … private school increases with both income and ability, and, among private schools, the propensity to attend the highest …-tuition school rises with both income and ability. Within private schools, tuition declines with student ability, with a substantial …

teachers who raise a schools' ability to attract students. Thus, in the long term, school choice would affect who became (and … choice (Tiebout choice, choice of private schools) and a new survey of charter school teachers, this paper finds evidence … that suggests that school choice would change the teaching profession by demanding teachers with higher quality college …

To study the effects of ability grouping on school competition, we develop a theoretical and computational model of …

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 …