Charter schools have been one of the most important dimensions of recent school reform measures in the United States … spread of charter schools in the 1990s. Using data on private school enrollment from decennial censuses and biennial National … Center for Education Statistics private school surveys, and using a fixed-effects as well as instrumental-variables strategy …

Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging a student fixed … effects design, we explore how the massive scale-up of a Florida private school choice program affected public school students … suspension rates) attending public schools closer to more pre-program private school options. Effects are particularly pronounced …

Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging a student fixed … effects design, we explore how the massive scale-up of a Florida private school choice program affected public school students … suspension rates) attending public schools closer to more pre-program private school options. Effects are particularly pronounced …

-based tracking on student performance is mixed. Using rich data from the Hungarian secondary school centralized assignment mechanism …

students lag behind their foreign peers on standardized tests, as the policy problem. School choice, specifically charter … school policy, has emerged as a potential remedy. School choice is hypothesized to have both participant and systemic … studies of this subject. School level data from Ohio are analyzed to estimate if traditional public schools potentially …

This paper evaluates school choice at the compulsory-school level by assessing a reform implemented in Sweden in 1992 …, which opened up for publicly funded but privately operated schools. In many local school markets, this reform led to a …, and controlling for differential pre-reform municipality trends. We find that an increase in the private-school share by …

achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The …

consequences of failing to gain admission to one's first-choice secondary school in England. Our empirical strategy leverages … features of the institutional setting and the literature on school choice to make a case for a selection …-on-observables identifying assumption. Failing to gain a place at a preferred school had null to small impacts on short-run academic attainment …