Is a school's impact on high-stakes test scores a good measure of its overall impact on students? Do parents value … school impacts on tests, longer-run outcomes, or both? To answer the first question, we exploit quasi-random school … assignments and data from Trinidad and Tobago. We construct exogenous instruments for each individual school and estimate the …

Is a school's impact on high-stakes test scores a good measure of its overall impact on students? Do parents value … school impacts on high-stakes tests, longer-run outcomes, or both? To answer the first question, we apply quasi … labor market participation. To answer the second question, we link estimated school impacts to parent's ranked lists of …

variation in school attendance, allowing us to remove self-selection bias. Despite large differences in teacher quality and peer … quality across these school types, we find little evidence of any relative benefit in attending an assisted school between the …

theorized mechanisms in school choice programs that lead to positive outcomes are (1) an increased access to higher-quality …There is a large body of thorough research showing many positive benefits of school choice. However, many questions … remain on how school choice works. Rigorous school choice experiments can only determine if access to school choice programs …