Information, School Choice, and Academic Achievement: Evidence from Two Experiments
通过一个自然实验和一个实地实验，发现向低收入家庭提供学校考试成绩信息能显著提高他们选择高分学校的比例，且就读高分学校能提升学生成绩。
We examine a natural experiment and a field experiment that provided direct information on school test scores to lower-income families in a public school choice plan. Receiving information significantly increases the fraction of parents choosing higher-performing schools. Parents with high-scoring alternatives nearby were more likely to choose nonguaranteed schools with higher test scores. Using random variation from each experiment, we find that attending a higher-scoring school increases student test scores. The results imply that school choice will most effectively increase academic achievement for disadvantaged students when parents have easy access to test score information and good options from which to choose.