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Choice, Accountability, and Peer Effects (with David Figlio)

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On this episode of The Report Card, Nat Malkus speaks with David Figlio about school choice, accountability, and peer effects. Nat and David discuss how school choice programs affect students who remain in traditional public schools; what other choice mechanisms can tell us about universal ESAs; the effects of school accountability on life outcomes; holding students back; the teaching quality of non-tenure-track professors; the importance of cultivating researcher-district relationships; whether peer effects are understudied; and boys named Sue.

David Figlio is the Gordon Fyfe Professor of Economics and Education at the University of Rochester. Previously, he was provost at the University of Rochester and dean of the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University.

Show Notes:

Competitive Effects of Charter Schools

Effects of Maturing Private School Choice Programs on Public School Students

School Accountability, Long-Run Criminal Activity, and Self-Sufficiency

Boys Named Sue: Disruptive Children and their Peers

Host:
Nat Malkus