TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gilraine,Michael
AU  - Petronijevic,Uros
AU  - Singleton,John D.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - School Choice, Competition, and Aggregate School Quality
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
KW  - State and Local Government: Health • Education • Welfare • Public Pensions
KW  - jelc
KW  - Analysis of Education
KW  - Government Policy
N1  - June 2023; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - This paper develops and estimates an empirical framework that evaluates the impact of charter school choice on education quality in the aggregate. We estimate the model using student-level data from North Carolina. We find that North Carolina's lifting of its statewide charter school cap raised the average public school's value-added by around 0.01 standard deviations (on the student test score distribution). We calculate the total human capital returns of the expansion at above $100,000 per charter school enrollee. We further show that competition drives the aggregate gains; test score impacts on students induced into charter schools by the policy are negative
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w31328
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w31328
ER  -