This paper studies a school district that was federally mandated to adopt a race-blind lottery system to fill seats in … lotteries by race to offset its predominantly black applicant pools. The change dramatically segregated subsequent magnet school …

Many urban school districts in the United States and OECD countries confront the necessity of closing schools due to … tasked with closing down a certain percentage of student capacity; parents respond to these school closings by sorting into … the remaining schools. We estimate parents' preferences for each school in their choice set using 4 years of student …

causal effect of class size on school tracking outcomes after elementary school. Our identification strategy relies on the … tracked into more or less academic middle school types at about age ten based, to a large extent, on academic achievement in … elementary school. We mostly find no or small effects of class size in elementary school on receiving a recommendation or on the …