Since the 1990's the school choice options available to parents have expanded dramatically. As an alternative to their … residentially zoned public school, parents in many states can now take advantage of charter schools, magnet schools, inter …/intra-district choice plans and vouchers to attend private schools. Since school choice programs weaken the link between school quality and …

School districts have more influence on home buyers’ choices than any other local-government unit, yet hardly anyone … knows why they exist. “Making the Grade” explains the development of American school districts and advances an economic … argument for their continued existence. In the nineteenth century, almost all districts governed a single, one-room school …

Many cities with school choice programs employ algorithms to determine which applicants get seats in oversubscribed … schools. This study explores whether the New Orleans placement algorithm favored students of certain races or socioeconomic …

Geographic school admissions criteria bind residential and school choices for some parents, and could create … the policy decision of geographic versus non-geographic school admissions criteria has important implications for … equilibrium outcomes in school and housing markets. Geographic admissions criteria segregate schools, but integrate neighborhoods …

Education reforms must go furtherIncentivising Excellence considers the conditions that need to prevail for school … regarding the effects of school choice – encompassing cross-national studies, in-depth discussions of national choice programmes … efforts to introduce school choice, most attempts have been half-hearted, making it unsurprising that many of the reforms have …

In this paper, I relax one of the common assumptions made in standard school choice problems by allowing students to … rank not just schools, but school-cohort sized pairs. The intuition for this extension is the observation that a school at … maximum capacity is not the same object, from a student’s perspective, as the same school that is only partially filled …

In this paper we look at school choice in primary schools in Germany. The data used is from Wuppertal, a major city in … North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW), where school districts were abolished in 2008 to allow for free school choice. Here we look at … the situation before 2008 to learn more about choice in the presence of school districts. Our analysis shows that it is …