Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has declared school voucher programs constitutional, the many unanswered questions … concerning the potential effects of school choice will become especially pressing. Contributors to this volume draw on state …-of-the-art economic methods to answer some of these questions, investigating the ways in which school choice affects a wide range of …

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 …