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 …

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

. We combine Spring 2021 state standardized test score data with comprehensive data on schooling in the 2020-21 school year …

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 …

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

Schools (CPS). Roughly half of the students within CPS opt out of their assigned high school to attend other neighborhood … schools or special career academies and magnet schools. Access to school choice dramatically increases student sorting by … of school choice) are no more likely to graduate on average than students in more isolated areas. We find no evidence …

teachers who raise a schools' ability to attract students. Thus, in the long term, school choice would affect who became (and … choice (Tiebout choice, choice of private schools) and a new survey of charter school teachers, this paper finds evidence … that suggests that school choice would change the teaching profession by demanding teachers with higher quality college …

model describing the joint distribution of school value-added, bias, and lottery compliance. We use this model to assess the … provides a general recipe for combining non-experimental and quasi-experimental estimates. While still biased, hybrid school …