-term responses of a grant to school committees in Niger show that parents increased participation and responsibility, but these …Giving power over school management and spending decisions to communities has been a favored strategy to increase … school quality, but its effectiveness may depend on local capacity. Grants are one form of such a transfer of power. Short …

compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers … with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for … example, that an improvement in parental outside options will reduce parental and school effort, which are partially …

of parents and students. We find that more choices of a particular type of school do lead to an increase in parental exit … reduction in the use of voice to address institutional failures. School choice is premised on the idea that more exit options … to that type of school, but that the effect on voice is more complicated. Specifically, more exit options decreases the …

A key assumption of school choice and competition policies is that parents' most important priority when choosing a … drive parents' school choosing is still scarce. We use census data from a parents' survey in Chile, a country with a … national school choice and competition system, to describe the most common attributes that parents consider when choosing a …