We find a strong positive correlation between black exposure to whites in their school district and the prevalence of … propensities to have mixed-race births are more likely to live in desegregated school districts. We exploit quasi-random variation … to estimate causal effects of school desegregation on mixed-race childbearing, finding small to moderate statistically …

schooling policies particularly those related to the level and distribution of school spending affect the distribution of worker … in achievement growth across states. Further, the three decade old movement toward reducing the variation in school … government policies toward school spending, as carried out in the past, have not ameliorated inequalities in incomes …

While numerous recent authors have studied the effects of school accountability systems on student test performance and … school quot;gamingquot; of accountability incentives, there has been little attention paid to substantive changes in … instructional policies and practices resulting from school accountability. The lack of research is primarily due to the …

Everyone knows that public school officials in the American South violated the Supreme Court's separate … school attendance in the early twentieth century South. But separate-but-equal was not enough. Black children still would … have attended school less often than white children because black parents were poorer and less literate than white parents …

This paper examines how a large conditional grants program influenced school desegregation in the American South … school districts with more at risk in 1966 were more likely to desegregate just enough to receive their funds. Although the …

We analyze in this paper the long term effect of a high school remedial education program, almost two decades after its … implementation. We combine high school records with National Social Security administrative data to examine longer-term outcomes when … targeted underachieving students in their last year of high school had gains that went much beyond the short term significant …

To study the effects of ability grouping on school competition, we develop a theoretical and computational model of …

This paper uses computable general equilibrium simulations to investigate the effect of private school vouchers. It … explicit political process at the school district level; (ii) embedding the private/public school choice in a Tiebout model in … which agents also choose between communities that provide different public school/property tax packages; and (iii) allowing …

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school … between primary and secondary school across tracked and non-tracked systems. Six international student assessments provide …