Some environmental influences, including intentional interventions, have shown persistent
effects on psychological characteristics and other socially important outcomes years and …

Many personal and policy decisions turn on perceptions of school effectiveness, defined
here as the causal effect of attendance at a particular school or set of schools on student test …

School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward
effective schools and punish ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose …

We review the theoretical, computational, and empirical research on school vouchers, with a
focus on the latter. Our assessment is that the evidence to date is not sufficient to warrant …

Yong Zhao shines a light on the long-ignored phenomenon of side effects of education
policies and practices, bringing a fresh and perhaps surprising perspective to evidence …

Many school districts with centralized school choice adopt strategy-proof assignment
mechanisms to relieve applicants from needing to strategize based on beliefs about their …

School-choice policies are expected to generate healthy competition between schools,
leading to improvements in school quality and better outcomes for students. However, the …

How does financial aid affect postsecondary enrollment, college choice, and student
composition? We present new evidence based on a large-scale program available to high …

Parents in the United States have had the legal right to choose the school their child attends
for a long time. Traditionally, parental school choice took the form of families moving to a …

Romanian households could choose schools with one standard deviation worth of
additional value added. Why do households leave value added “on the table”? We study two …