productivity parameter, class size is a component of school quality, households are heterogeneous in income and hence willingness … between class size and household income in equilibrium, which will tend to bias cross-sectional estimates of the effect of … approach in settings in which parents have substantial school choice and schools are free to set prices and influence their …

records to students' performance on a national college graduation exam. In each case we can control for individuals' college …

: school reputation in the spirit of Holmstrom (1982). The first result is that if schools cannot select students based upon … are allowed to select on ability, then competition leads to stratification by parental income, increased transmission of … income inequality, and reduced student effort---in some cases lowering the accumulation of skill. The model accounts for …

) explores whether this intervention induces behavioral responses on the part of children, their parents, and the school system …'s high school educational system. For the second, we use data from a specialized survey of children, parents, teachers and … of teachers, parents, and students. Although we do not expect the magnitude or even the direction of these responses to …