This paper: i) estimates the effect that going to a better school has on students' academic achievement, and ii …) explores whether this intervention induces behavioral responses on the part of children, their parents, and the school system …'s high school educational system. For the second, we use data from a specialized survey of children, parents, teachers and …

private school competition threat in school accountability systems. Using administrative student-level data from Florida and a … public schools to transfer to a private school. This gives us the unique opportunity to evaluate the incentive character of a … overall incentive effect of the sanction regime. This leads to conclude that the public school choice option, which remained …

This report discusses the most relevant issues concerning school choice schemes, and how they intertwine with equity … considerations, through a literature review and analysis of the effects different types of school choice programmes have on equity …. In the last 25 years, more than two-thirds of OECD countries have increased school choice opportunities for parents. The …

Pop-Eleches and Urquiola (2013) apply a regression discontinuity to the Romanian secondary school system, and notably … find that (a) students who go to a better school get higher scores on an exam used for university admission, (b) parents of … students who get into a better school help their kids less with homework, and (c) kids who go to a slightly better school …

This paper: i) estimates the effect that going to a better school has on students' academic achievement, and ii …) explores whether this intervention induces behavioral responses on the part of children, their parents, and the school system …'s high school educational system. For the second, we use data from a specialized survey of children, parents, teachers and …

This essay explores the post-Parents Involved options available to local school boards that continue to face the … Court’s lack of deference towards the Seattle and Louisville school districts’ stated goals for adopting the voluntary … higher education affirmative action cases by refusing to give deference to the policy choices of the local school officials …

Free school choice has often been argued to be a tide that lifts school quality through increased competition. This … paper analyzes the underlying assumption that school quality is an important choice criterion for parents. Using a large and … representative data set of over 15,000 Dutch primary school starters we estimate models of school demand that incorporate …

school competition are both independently related to student outcomes. …Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging a student fixed … effects design, we explore how the massive scale-up of a Florida private school choice program affected public school students …

Dozens of school districts and college admissions systems around the world have reformed their admissions rules in …