If school closures and social-distancing experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic impeded children’s skill development …, they may leave a lasting legacy in human capital. To understand the pandemic’s effects on school children, this paper … on the conceptual framework of an education production function, we cover evidence on child, parent, and school inputs …

trends of school effects on student achievement employing three national probability samples of high school seniors: NLS:72 …, HSB:82, and NELS:92. Hierarchical linear models are used to investigate school effects. The findings reveal that the … between school variation in achievement, which becomes larger over time. Schools are more diverse and more segregated in the …

We develop a framework that may be used to determine the degree to which a school choice program may harm public school …-skimming" effect is increasing in the degree of heterogeneity within schools, the school choice takeup rate of strong students relative … high school graduation rate of the students who would remain in public school. We employ NELS:88 data to measure the …

We analyze two experiments that provided direct information on school test scores to lower-income families in a public … school choice plan. We find that receiving information significantly increases the fraction of parents choosing higher … scores. Using random variation from each experiment, we find evidence that attending a higher-scoring school increases …

combining population-level birth and school records from Florida. This research question is complicated by substantial school … immigrant students in the school. We propose a new identification strategy to partial out the unobserved non-random selection …