Why do crime rates differ greatly across neighborhoods and schools? Comparing youth who were assigned to opposite sides … of newly drawn school boundaries, we show that concentrating disadvantaged youth together in the same schools and …

religiously-affiliated schools. We explore the possibility that vouchers could create a financial windfall for religious … organizations operating private schools and in doing so impact the spiritual, moral, and social fabric of communities. We use a … dataset of Catholic-parish finances from Milwaukee that includes information on both Catholic schools and the parishes that …

implemented quarantines and closed schools. Since the pandemic occurred during the start of the 1916 school year, children of …

York City Public Schools, using a school-level randomized field experiment. Across three years, schools offered at least … effect of the Promise Academy Middle School in the Harlem Children's Zone and KIPP Charter Middle Schools on reading … Hispanic students is best explained by the average tutor characteristics at the schools they attend …

schools. The key identification challenge is that the composition of a school board is potentially correlated with unobserved …) Democrat board members decrease racial segregation across schools. These estimates significantly differ from their ordinary … schools in districts in which boards have acted to reduce segregation …