The impact of school choice on education quality is one of the most hotly contested issues in education economics. We … even becomes negative. Besides the influence on the average achievement in the city, the increased school choice leads to …

In a school choice problem each school has a priority ordering over students. These priority orderings depend on … criteria such as whether a student lives within walking distance or has a sibling already at the school. We argue that by … alternative school choice problem and adaptations of the Gale-Shapley student optimal stable mechanism and the top trading cycles …

We study school choice within the family, analyzing how birth order, gender, innate talent, and family financial …

Government of Punjab is committed to attain the universalization of school education by providing free education and … partial failure of these schemes and making the target of universalization of school education difficult. The paper examines … the household choice of private versus public sector schools as an outcome of child, household and school characteristics …

School assignment procedures aim to improve student welfare, but must balance efficiency and equity goals and provide …

We apply propensity score matching to the estimation of the disparity in school effectiveness between the privately … owned, privately funded school sector and the public one in a sample of 25 countries in Europe, America and Asia. This … technique allows us to distinguish between school choice and school effectiveness processes and thus, to account for selectivity …

We apply propensity score matching to the estimation of differential school effectiveness between the publicly funded … private sector and the public one, in a sample of 26 countries. This technique allows us to distinguish between school choice … and school effectiveness processes and thus, to account for selectivity issues involved in the comparison of the two …

to the equalisation of opportunities in school choice. The theoretical framework is based on the contributions of … researchers into school choice policies, while the empirical application uses a 2005 questionnaire answered by the final …-year secondary school students of the Spanish region of Aragon. We conclude that the system of Spanish publicly-subsidised private …