. There is growing empirical evidence that low-income parents place lower weights on academics when choosing schools, but …The incentives and outcomes generated by public school choice depend to a large degree on parents' choice behavior … admission to students in randomly selected schools along with their CMS school choice forms. We find that receiving simplified …

We use large-scale surveys of Chilean college applicants and college students to explore the way students form beliefs … to observed values for past students and follow survey participants forward to see how beliefs relate to matriculation … and dropout outcomes. We find that students have correctly centered but noisy cost expectations, and appear to …

tried to integrate schools. Today, district-wide choice allows Boston and New York students to enroll far from home, perhaps …

which school principals were provided with estimates of the performance of individual teachers in raising their students …

Using data on student outcomes and school choice lotteries from a low-income urban school district, we examine how …. The effects are largest for male students entering high school, whose truancy rates decline by 21% in the months after …