as a natural experiment. We compare the probabilities of gaining selective school entry - which in our study period meant … attending a grammar school - before and after the Act using a difference-in-difference approach. Before 1944, grammar school … children were required to take a competitive 11+ exam and about one-third gained a grammar school place. Pre-1944 we find the …

This paper studies an information intervention designed and implemented in the context of a school assignment mechanism … graduate on time from high school at a higher rate. We also quantify the effect of a counterfactual and yet feasible …

Geographic school admissions criteria bind residential and school choices for some parents, and could create … the policy decision of geographic versus non-geographic school admissions criteria has important implications for … equilibrium outcomes in school and housing markets. Geographic admissions criteria segregate schools, but integrate neighborhoods …

Many cities with school choice programs employ algorithms to determine which applicants get seats in oversubscribed …

We estimate a structural dynamic programming model of schooling decisions with unobserved heterogeneity in school … utility of attending school and the wage regression function are estimated flexibly. The null hypothesis that the local …

from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but …