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 …

Preferences for schools are important determinants of equitable access to high-quality
education, effects of expanded choice on school improvement, and school choice …

The Covid-19 pandemic drastically disrupted the functioning of US public schools,
potentially changing the relative appeal of alternatives such as homeschooling and private …

We examine the impact of the expansion of charter schools on racial segregation in public
schools, defined using multiple measures of racial sorting and isolation. Our research …

Multiple studies have shown the potential for school choice policies to benefit middle-class
families, often to the detriment of lower income students in the same district. Yet, there is …

This paper empirically studies the distributional consequences of affirmative action in the
context of a centralized college admission system. We examine the effects of a large-scale …

To explore whether schools' causal impacts on test scores measure their overall impact on
students, we exploit plausibly exogenous school assignments and data from Trinidad and …

Most US students attend racially segregated schools. To understand this pattern, I employ a
survey experiment with New York City families actively choosing schools and investigate …

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 …

School choice may allow schools to impede access to students perceived as costlier to
educate. To test this, we sent emails from fictitious parents to 6,452 charter schools and …