We investigate the effects of public school open enrolment, which allows students to enroll in any public school with … whose catchment school is locally top-ranked according to test scores, greater choice is of no direct benefit; however …, students whose catchment school is locally lowest-ranked earn higher scores when they have access to better local schools …

Urban school districts nationwide have increased within-district choice for families. In response, district …

This paper provides a comprehensive study on how attending a Swedish independent upper secondary school, instead of a … public school, affects students' academic and short-term post-secondary outcomes. We apply two estimation methods to data on … suggest a positive independent school effect on: final GPA, test results in English and Swedish, the likelihood of graduating …

This paper provides a comprehensive study on how attending a Swedish independent upper secondary school, instead of a … public school, affects students’ academic and short-term post-secondary outcomes. We apply two estimation methods to data on … suggest a positive independent school effect on: final GPA, test results in English and Swedish, the likelihood of graduating …

A key assumption of school choice and competition policies is that parents' most important priority when choosing a … school (if not the only one), is the quality of the school. However, evidence about the school's attributes that in reality … drive parents' school choosing is still scarce. We use census data from a parents' survey in Chile, a country with a …

Extant research on school entry and compulsory schooling laws finds that these policies increase the high school … the evolution of postsecondary impacts of the interaction of school entry and compulsory schooling laws in Michigan. We … employ a regression-discontinuity (RD) design using longitudinal administrative data to examine effects on high school …

This paper explores the dynamic relationship between school choices made at different educational stages and how it … affects racial segregation across schools. We use New York City public school choice data to ask: "How does the middle school … that a student attends affect her high school application and assignment?" We take two approaches to answer the question …

and private schooling on student scores in Australia. We control for observable and unobservable influences, at school and …

.16 percentage-point increase in private primary school enrollment. This roughly corresponds to 1 native child switching to private …

school track suitable for their child, changing the purpose of the primary teacher's recommendation from mandatory to … rates to the higher school tracks increased substantially, with stronger responses among children from richer districts …. Simultaneously, grade repetition in the first grades of second-ary school increased dramatically, suggesting that parents choose …