We investigate the effects of public school open enrolment, which allows students to enroll in any public school with … whose catchment school is locally top-ranked according to test scores, greater choice is of no direct benefit; however …, students whose catchment school is locally lowest-ranked earn higher scores when they have access to better local schools …

markets with significant choice among public and private schools. Our model accounts for the endogeneity of school fees and … the characteristics of students attending the school. As expected, central determinants of school choice are the distance … to school, school fees, and the characteristics of peers. Families are willing to pay on average between 75% and 115% of …

We analyze how school vouchers affect post-secondary attainment by exploiting the universal voucher program implemented … covered tuition independently of whether the chosen school was private or public. We find that vouchers increased the … school choice becomes available in a student's educational path. We find that the impacts of vouchers on PSE outcomes are …

feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high school. The intervention reduces the gap between …' own academic ability in shaping curricular choices. The shift in revealed preferences over high school tracks enabled by …

We study whether information provision improves the academic performance of primary school children in a setting where … either intra or both intra and inter school performance of students in curriculum based tests. We find significant … improvement in test scores of private school students by 0.31 standard deviations when information on both absolute and relative …

Using several data sources from Chile, we study the impact of school choice at the time of starting primary school. To … study the contribution of school choice, we exploit the combination of multiple cutoffs defining the minimum age at entry … the same municipality, and whose birthday differs by a few days not only have their incentives to delay school entry …

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 …

Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging three alternative …

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