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List of Figures vii List of Tables ix Acknowlegments xiiiIntroduction School Choice, Parent Incentives, and the Use of Information 3PART ONE Chapter 1 Reinventing the Governance Structure of Education: SchoolChoice as Educational Reform 21 Chapter 2 Parent Behavior and the DemandSide of School Choice 39 Chapter 3 Studying Choice: The Research Design 59PART TWO Chapter 4 The Distribution of Preferences: What Do Parents Wantfrom Schools? 87 Chapter 5 How Do Parents Search for Information? 108Chapter 6 Building Social Networks to Search for Information about Schools126 PART THREE Chapter 7 The Distribution of Knowledge: How Much Do ParentsKnow about the Schools? 149 Chapter 8 Allocational Efficiency: You Can'tAlways Get What You Want -- But Some Do 164 Chapter 9 Productive Efficiency:Does School Choice Affect Academic Performance? 185 Chapter 10 Does ChoiceIncrease Segregation and Stratification? 204 Chapter 11 Choosing Together IsBetter than Bowling Alone: School Choice and the Creation of Social Capital223 Chapter 12 Opting Out of Public Schools: Can Choice Affect theRelationship between Private and Public Schools? 238 CONCLUSION Chapter 13Myths and Markets: Choice Is No Panacea, But It Does Work 261 Notes 275References 285 Index 307