This paper studies the limits of school choice policies in the presence of residential segregation. Using data from the … minority students, and that cross-race school achievement gaps under choice are no lower than would be generated by a … neighborhood assignment rule. To understand why choice-based assignments do not reduce gaps in school achievement, I use data on …

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 … suspension rates) attending public schools closer to more pre-program private school options. Effects are particularly pronounced …

School districts in the US and around the world are increasingly moving away from traditional neighborhood school … district boundaries. This creates a market with parental demand over publicly-supplied school seats. More frequently than ever …, this market for school seats is cleared via market design solutions grounded in recent advances in matching and mechanism …