The college choice process can be reduced to three questions:1) Where does a student apply?2) Which schools accept the students?3) Which offer of admission does the student accept?This paper addresses question three. Specifically, we offer an econometric analysis of the matriculation decisions...

A school that is more productive is one that produces higher achievement in its pupils for each dollar it spends. In this paper, I comprehensively review how school choice might affect productivity. I begin by describing the importance of school productivity, then explain the economic logic that...

This paper investigates whether schools that face stronger choice-based incentives have greater demand for certain teacher characteristics and (if so) which teacher characteristics. Schools that face choice-based incentives should demand teachers who raise a schools' ability to attract students....