Does a school district that expands school choice provide better outcomes for students than a neighborhood …-based assignment system? This paper studies the Zones of Choice (ZOC) program, a school choice initiative of the Los Angeles Unified … School District (LAUSD) that created small high school markets in some neighborhoods but left attendance-zone boundaries in …

In response to widespread dissatisfaction with the schools, the 1988 Chicago School Reform Act decentralized school … governance by forming elected local school councils (LSCs) responsible for principal hiring, evaluation, and contract renewal as … incorporates potential differences in LSC capacity and incentives to maximize school quality. Using proxies for managerial capacity …

We review the theoretical, computational, and empirical research on school vouchers, with a focus on the latter. In …

improve students' long-term outcomes. Using school district and tax records for more than one million children, we find that … students assigned to high-VA teachers in primary school are more likely to attend college, earn higher salaries, and are less …

those who were school-aged in 1970. Bad weather on Earth Day is also associated with higher levels of carbon monoxide in the …

We study the relationship between school characteristics and housing prices in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina … between 1994 and 2001. During this period, the school district was operating under a court-imposed desegregation order and … redrew a number of school boundaries. We use two different sources of variation to disentangle the effect of schools and …

that, after an initial start-up period, average school quality in the charter sector is not significantly different from … that in regular public schools. Perhaps most important, the parental decision to exit a charter school is much more … sensitive to education quality than the decision to exit a regular public school, consistent with the notion that the …

In many theoretical public finance models, school quality plays a central role as a determinant of household location … concluded that the direct effect of school quality on housing demand is weak, a conclusion that is robust across a variety of …, providing clear evidence that the full effect of school quality on residential sorting is significantly larger than the direct …