School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward effective schools and punish … ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose schools based on causal effectiveness rather than peer characteristics … City's centralized high school assignment mechanism. We use applicants' rank-ordered choice lists to measure preferences …

, improving the efficiency of school seats allocation. I show that parents of low-ability males select schools with lower peer …Expanding parental choice in education may increase system-wide productivity if parents select schools that form a … specifically good match with their children. I investigate the effect of attending a preferred school on student achievement in …

School choice may lead to improvements in school productivity if parents' choices reward effective schools and punish … ineffective ones. This mechanism requires parents to choose schools based on causal effectiveness rather than peer characteristics … City's centralized high school assignment mechanism. We use applicants' rank-ordered choice lists to measure preferences …

I show that parents select schools by considering attributes of the student-school match that improve the learning … outcomes beyond average school quality. Using the centralized algorithm for offers to primary school in London, I compare the … most-preferred school versus an institution ranked lower increases achievement by 0.10 SD beyond school value-added among …

We study self-selection in centralized school choice, a strategy that takes place when students submit preferences … schools are zero, she may not rank them even when the mechanism is strategyproof. Using data from the Mexico City high school … mistake. These findings question the effectiveness of equal access provided by school choice, and we argue it can be improved …

in St. Louis and Kansas City with 35 parents of school age children. Participant responses indicate that school choice … programs illicit mixed emotions from parents. Most participants personally support school choice and exercise choice themselves …Enrollment in school choice programs is growing, so is overall support for school choice. Many have analyzed what …

the students/parents over the days they would like to come to school into account during this procedure. In this paper, we …During the pandemic, school districts have adopted hybrid schedules to continue the education of the students while … only in the same group can physically attend class together two days a week. School districts do not take preferences of …

compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers … with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for … example, that an improvement in parental outside options will reduce parental and school effort, which are partially …