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 …

-added school from among the set of feasible schools, then this reallocation of students would increase academic achievement …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Free school choice has often been argued to be a tide that lifts school quality through increased competition. This … paper analyzes the underlying assumption that school quality is an important choice criterion for parents. Using a large and … representative data set of over 15,000 Dutch primary school starters we estimate models of school demand that incorporate …

. In this paper, we study whether pupils in Primary schools in England with a wider range of school choices achieve better … between choice and achievement, but uncover a small positive association between competition and school performance. Yet, this … could be related to endogenous school location or pupil sorting. In fact, an instrumental variable strategy based on …

We combine data from the Amsterdam secondary-school match with register data and survey data to estimate the effects of … not being assigned to one's first-ranked school on academic outcomes and on a wide range of other outcomes. For … identification we use that secondary-school assignment in Amsterdam is based on the deferred acceptance mechanism with ties broken by …

Without a school degree, students can have difficulty in the labor market. To improve the lives of upper …-secondary school dropouts, German states instituted a school reform that awarded an interim degree to high-track students upon … completion of Grade 9. Using retrospective spell data on school and labor market careers from the National Educational Panel …