Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging three alternative … remaining in traditional public schools (TPS). We consistently find that competition stemming from the opening of new charter …

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 …

school in India. I use a standard binary choice logit model to estimate the e↵ect of income on private school enrolment after … controlling for school attributes and other household characteristics. I find that per capita income is the most important … predictor of whether a household chooses a public or private school. Using per capita consumption as a proxy for income, the …

We examine the differences in an index of standardized test performance of urban private/public school seniors by race … exogenous variables to control for individual traits, family background, etc., we treat both student performance and school … choice as jointly endogenous in the context of a simultaneous equations model with a latent variable: school choice. We find …

I develop a model of competition between charter schools and traditional public schools and estimate the model using … charter and public school students and simulate charter school entry and student test scores were binding caps on charters … school students is marginal, and iv) lifting caps on charter schools would more than double entry and cause increases in mean …

This paper uses data from the implementation of a district-wide public school choice plan in Mecklenburg County, North … Carolina to estimate preferences for school characteristics and examine their implications for the local educational market. We … attached to a school's mean test score increases with student's income and own academic ability. We also find considerable …

This paper uses data from the implementation of a district-wide public school choice plan in Mecklenburg County, North … Carolina to estimate preferences for school characteristics and examine their implications for the local educational market. We … attached to a school's mean test score increases with student's income and own academic ability. We also find considerable …