School Markets: The Impact of Information Approximating Schools' Effectiveness. NBER Working Paper No. 13676.

By Alejandra Mizala, Miguel S. Urquiola. 2007

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Reputation and School Competition (2015, background): “No consistent pattern emerges; some papers like Cullen, Jacob, and Levitt (2006); Clark (2010); and Dobbie and Fryer (2011) find little or no impact; others like Jackson (2010) and Pop-Eleches and Urquiola (2013) find positive effects.”
Teacher Quality and Learning Outcomes in Kindergarten (2016, result): “These results may not have a causal interpretation because teacher behaviors may be correlated with other 37 In Chile (Mizala and Urquiola 2013), and in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil (Ferraz and Bruns 2011) schools are ranked by a composite measure which includes test scores, and those with high…”
When Do Better Schools Raise Housing Prices? Evidence from Paris Public and Private Schools. CEE DP 119. (2010, methodology): “The evidence is more mixed as to whether information on school effectiveness (essentially in the form of valued added measured of school performance) affects school markets(Kane and Staiger, 2002; Hastings et al., 2007; Mizala and Urquiola, 2008).”
Investing in Schooling In Chile: The Role of Information about Financial Aid for Higher Education (2011, unknown): “4 Mizala and Urquiola (2007) find that school choice does not respond to new information about school quality in Chile.”
Improving Educational Outcomes in Developing Countries: Lessons from Rigorous Evaluations (2014, background): “…the achievement of students attending private schools by .2-.6 SDs, but did not increase the achievement of students attending public schools.37 Mizala and Urquiola (2013) evaluated the effect of rankings based on schools’ “value-added” in Chile, another country with a large share of…”