public school choice. …

In a school choice context we show that considering only schools' priorities and the set of acceptable schools for each … characterize impossible matches, i.e., of pairs student school that cannot be matched at any stable matching, for any preference …. First, we use this technique to discuss the impact of priority zoning in school choice problems. Second, a new mechanism for …

on the areas covered by the intervention, we find evidence of positive spillovers across villages on school participation …

Students' social networks are deeply disrupted during school transitions and students start in a classroom environment … during the transition to high school. To overcome the issue of endogenous selection across classes, we exploit rare natural … grade of middle school reduces substantially the risk of grade retention in 10th grade, but also in following grades. For …