This paper reviews the research on the impacts of charter school attendance on students'
academic and other outcomes, the mechanisms behind those effects, and the influence of …

Concerned about the low academic ability of public school teachers, in the 1990s and
2000s, some states increased licensing stringency to weed out low-quality candidates, while …

We explore the dynamics of competitive search in the K–12 public education sector. Using
detailed panel data on teacher hiring from Boston Public Schools, we document how …

In many school districts, the policies that regulate teaching personnel are governed by
collective bargaining agreements (CBAs). While there is significant policy attention that has …

School districts are traditionally subject to a variety of state regulations on educational
inputs. Absent regulations, policymakers fear that districts will make inappropriate decisions …

Research on charter schools tends to focus on direct and immediate effects on student
outcomes. However, there may be unintended indirect effects on, for example, the teacher …

Theories of market-based school reform suggest that teacher labor markets may be
inefficient because schools lack autonomy to incentivize performance in hiring, retention …

Empirical Bayes shrinkage methods usually maintain a prior independence assumption: The
unknown parameters of interest are independent from the known precision of the estimates …

Charter schools and inter-district public school choice are a growing part of the public school
system. Theoretically, competition for students might lead to competition for effective and …

Charter schools can serve as “laboratories of innovation,” generating evidence about
effective educational practices via their random admissions lotteries. This paper synthesizes …