A large school consolidation reform in the Netherlands changed minimum school size rules underlying public funding. The … of schools implies, for a given number of pupils, an increase in average school size. We present evidence that in our …

pupils’ posterior beliefs. Specifically, we focus on the beliefs of private school graduates about the productivity of state … school graduates. We incorporate this into a dynamic model of parental school choice (state versus private) and labour market … decisions (whether to hire a state or a private school graduate). We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for segregation …

School choice aims to improve (1) the matching between children and schools and (2) students’ educational outcomes. Yet … naive, but using school registry data, we find that a significant fraction of them have the outside option of private … not matched to any of the schools they applied for. Our results suggest that when allowing school choice under the BM with …

households care about the school peer group of their children. If ability and income are positively correlated, tracking implies …

We propose estimating gender peer effects in school by exploiting within-school variation in gender composition across …