School-choice policies are expected to generate healthy competition between schools,
leading to improvements in school quality and better outcomes for students. However, the …

The authors situate the emergence and effects of contemporary market-based reforms within
a framework of urban political economy that centers on racial inequality. They discuss how …

One of the primary aims of choice policies is to introduce competition between schools.
When parents can choose where to send their children, there is pressure on schools to …

This paper outlines the emergence of a New Washington Consensus associated with
leading philanthropies of the new millennium. This emergent development paradigm by no …

Purpose: This article examines two questions:(a) How does resource allocation change in
school districts experiencing sustained charter school competition?(b) Among districts …

We study the total, market-level effects of charter schools, and their mechanisms, on a
national level and across multiple outcomes. Using a generalized difference-in-differences …

Charters represent an expansion of public school choice, offering free, publicly funded
educational alternatives to traditional public schools. One relatively unexplored research …

A significant criticism of the charter school movement is that funding for charter schools
diverts money away from traditional public schools. The magnitude of such adverse fiscal …

School choice in the United States can be traced back to the start of civil society when
wealthy families selected a school based on educational philosophy, location, or religious …

Free school policy claims to partly decentralise to local proposers decisions over who
provides a free school, where and for what reasons, within the constraints of a government …