This review assesses the potential impact of large-scale voucher programs, drawing on
empirical literature in economics, education, and sociology. The discussion is guided by …

Any system of primary and secondary schools involves explicit or implicit mechanisms that
ration not only financial but also nonfinancial inputs into education production. This chapter …

To the extent that students benefit from high-achieving peers, tracking will help strong
students and hurt weak ones. However, all students may benefit if tracking allows teachers …

Even though some countries track students into differing‐ability schools by age 10, others
keep their entire secondary‐school system comprehensive. To estimate the effects of such …

We survey the theoretical and empirical literature on peer effects in education. Theoretical
models of peer effects are first summarized. Models of educational provision regimes in …

A theoretical and computational model with tax-financed, tuition-free public schools and
competitive, tuition-financed private schools is developed. Students differ by ability and …

We analyze the impact of classroom peers' ability (measured by their individual fixed effects)
on student achievement for all Florida public school students in grades 3–10 over a 6-year …

The authors use administrative data from three large urban school districts to describe
student sorting within schools. Students are linked to each of their teachers and students' …

The American Dream and the Public Schools examines issues that have excited and divided
Americans for years, including desegregation, school funding, testing, vouchers, bilingual …

We provide a measure of equality of educational opportunity in 54 countries, estimated as
the effect of family background on student performance in two international TIMSS tests …