Advances in Applied Microeconomics

Volume 14, 2006

Improving School Accountability: Check-ups or Choice

Editors: Timothy J. Gronberg and Dennis W. Jansen

Contents

• Tinkering Toward Accolades: School Gamin Under a Performance Accountability System (Julie Berry Cullen and Randall Reback)
• Accountability, Ability and Disability: Gaming the System? (David N. Figlio and Lawrence S. Getzler)
• Do Good High Schools Produce Good College Students? Early Evidence from New York City (Hella Bel Hadj Amor, Amy Ellen Swartz and Leanna Stiefel)
• Efficiency and Performance in Texas Public Schools (Timothy J. Gronberg, Dennis W. Jansen and George S. Naufal)
• An Examination of Student Achievement in Michigan Charter Schools (Randall W. Eberts and Kevin M. Hollenbeck)
• Does School Choice Increase School Quality? Evidence From North Carolina Charter Schools (George M. Holmes, Jeff Desimone and Nicolas G. Rupp)
• Competition and Accessibility in School Markets: Empirical Analysis Using Boundary Discontinuities (Stephen Gibbons and Olmo Silva)
• The Effect of School Choice and Residential Location on the Racial Segregation of Students (Hamilton Lankford and James Wyckoff)
• Beyond Achievement: Enrollment Consequences of Charter Schools in Michigan (Eugenia F. Toma, Ron Zimmer and John T. Jones)
• Charter Competition and Teacher Compensation (Lori L. Taylor)

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