Paths to Better Schools

Better management for better schools

Catchment Areas and Access to Better Schools

We compare popular school choice mechanisms in terms of children’s access to better schools (ABS) than their catchment area school, in districts with school stratification and where priority is given for residence in the catchment area of the school. In a large market model with two good schools and one bad school, we calculate worst-case and best-case bounds of the Boston Mechanism (BM). We fi...

Better Schools, Less Crime?

I estimate the e ect of attending a rst-choice middle or high school on young adult criminal activity, using data from public school choice lotteries in CharlotteMecklenburg school district (CMS). Seven years after random assignment, lottery winners have been arrested for fewer and less serious crimes, and have spent fewer days incarcerated. Lottery winners attended schools that were higher qua...

The professionals: Better teachers, better schools

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Measuring the Value of Better Schools

n 1993, spending on education represented 28 percent of state and local government expenditures and almost 14 percent of total government expenditures in the United States.1 The tremendous resources devoted to education in this country underscore the need to identify the tools and programs that yield the greatest return on our investment. Policymakers have sought to improve schools in a variety...