achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The …

If school closures and social-distancing experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic impeded children’s skill development …, they may leave a lasting legacy in human capital. To understand the pandemic’s effects on school children, this paper … on the conceptual framework of an education production function, we cover evidence on child, parent, and school inputs …

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 …

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 …

school choice mechanisms, namely deferred and immediate acceptance mechanisms. Some seats are allocated based on merit (e … more diverse school populations in the experiments, as predicted. Comparing the two mechanisms, students with the lowest …

schools. To explain the observed data, we introduce expectationbased loss aversion into a school-choice setting and …