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Three essays consider implications of the strong association between student background characteristics and academic performance. Chapter One considers the incentives that school choice policies might create for the efficient management of schools. These incentives would be diluted if parents prefer schools with desirable peer groups to those with inferior peers but better policies and instruction. I model a Tiebout choice housing market in which schools differ in both peer group and effectiveness. If parental preferences depend primarily on school effectiveness, we should expect both that wealthy parents purchase houses near effective schools and that decentralization of educational governance facilitates this residential sorting | Essays in the Economics of Education by Jesse Morris Rothstein . Harvard University 1995 A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Economics in the GRADUATE DIVISION of the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY Committee in charge Professor David Card Chair Professor John M. Quigley Professor Steven Raphael Spring 2003 UMI Number 3183857 Copyright 2003 by Rothstein Jesse Morris All rights reserved. UMI Microform 3183857 Copyright 2005 by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved. This microform edition is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17 United States Code. ProQuest Information and Learning Company 300 North Zeeb Road . Box 1346 Ann Arbor MI 48106-1346 Essays in the Economics of Education Copyright 2003 by Jesse Morris .