The incentives and outcomes generated by public school choice depend to a large degree on parents' choice behavior … there is little evidence as to why. We use a field experiment in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public School district (CMS) to …. We provided simplified information sheets on school average test scores or test scores coupled with estimated odds of …

School choice has become an increasingly prominent strategy for urban school districts seeking to enhance academic … advantage of these programs. To overcome this difficulty, we exploit randomized lotteries that determine high school admission …

A central argument for school choice is that families value the freedom to exercise choice and can make wise decisions …. This principle may underlie why lottery-based school evaluations, which exploit over-subscription due to excess demand … to these results. We evaluate the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP), a school voucher plan providing public funds for …

Public school choice programs give households a free choice of public school and provide schools incentives to compete … schools, since households' perceptions of school quality depend not only on the efforts of school personnel but also on the … analyzing an economic model of public school choice. To capture the pro-choice argument, the model assumes that a neighborhood …

Does a school district that expands school choice provide better outcomes for students than a neighborhood …-based assignment system? This paper studies the Zones of Choice (ZOC) program, a school choice initiative of the Los Angeles Unified … School District (LAUSD) that created small high school markets in some neighborhoods but left attendance-zone boundaries in …

field studies of school matching show that information is imperfect, particularly for disadvantaged students. We model …

This paper studies how welfare outcomes in centralized school choice depend on the assignment mechanism when … participants are not fully informed. Using a survey of school choice participants in a strategic setting, we show that beliefs … of belief errors, we estimate a model of school choice that incorporates subjective beliefs. We evaluate the equilibrium …