and Hispanics are less likely to use computers at school and at work. The implications of these differences in school …

We estimate preferences for school tracks in upper secondary education in Hungary. We consider travel time, school SES … composition, school level (in terms of peer quality) and school quality (in terms of added value). We find that students have … stronger preferences for school SES composition and school level, rather than school quality (which may be harder to observe …

School districts have more influence on home buyers’ choices than any other local-government unit, yet hardly anyone … knows why they exist. “Making the Grade” explains the development of American school districts and advances an economic … argument for their continued existence. In the nineteenth century, almost all districts governed a single, one-room school …

The author explores the effectiveness of the two most-established forms of school choice in the United States choice … among public school districts and the choice between public and private schools. She finds that traditional school choice … parents who have greater choice are more likely to be involved in their children's schooling. The author concludes that …

To attend school is to sign up for a package deal. A single institution provides instruction across a range of subjects … variable flexibility, a school’s program, overall, is a take-it-or-leave-it bundle. On the other hand, educational unbundling … religious groups, will likely also offer bundling services in the marketplace, targeting parents unwilling or unable to do it …

Using rich panel data from Pakistan, we compute test score based measures of quality (School Value-Addeds or SVAs) for …. The annualized difference in learning between the best and worst performing school in the same village is 0.4 sd … illustrate using three different identification approaches. Finally, parents appear to recognize and reward SVA in the private …