and private schools. The idea is to assign to the education of each public school student a market value equivalent to the … tuition paid by private school students with similar test score results. The implementation requires an expenditure survey, or … schools. This article uses Brazilian test score data, which are particularly good. The main results are not surprising. Pre-school …

We study the welfare effects of school district consolidation, i.e. the integration of disjoint school districts into a …-demanded districts. Using data from the Hungarian secondary school assignment mechanism, we compute the actual welfare gains from … welfare gains from district consolidation for students, equivalent to attending a school five kilometres closer to the …

determine their matched school, such as other students' preferences or school priorities. This can lead to doubts about whether … disclosing sensitive private information like other students' preferences or school priorities. In particular, we show that the … Verifiability Problem can be solved by (1) publicly communicating the minimum scores required to be matched to a school ("cutoffs …