This paper investigates the effect of a policy-induced increase in public school competition on private school … expanded public school choice opportunities and increased competitive pressure on private schools. Using a new data set … constructed from mandatory nonprofit information returns and school enrollment records, I find that an increase in public school …

While much empirical work concerns job tenure, this paper introduces the concept of school tenure - the length of time … one student has been in a given school. I examine whether and how school tenure impacts students' output using rich cohort … longer own school tenure but suffer from that of their peers. Using the number of times the student moved school during the …

regulation. We illustrate our results in applications to financial regulation with environmental externalities, shadow banking …

In Turkey, as in many other countries, female students perform better in high school and have higher test scores than … preferences for programs and schools on the allocation of students to colleges. Controlling for test score and high school … unassigned and in relative preferences for school attributes can explain much of the gender gap at the most elite programs. …