This paper develops and estimates an empirical framework that evaluates the impact of charter school choice on education quality in the aggregate, estimating the model using student-level data from North Carolina.
The authors 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). They calculate the total human capital returns of the expansion at above $100,000 per charter school enrollee. They further show that competition drives the aggregate gains.
Test score impacts on students induced into charter schools by the policy are negative.
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