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Family networks and school enrolment : evidence from a randomized social experiment

Angelucci, Manuela; De Giorgi, Giacomo; Rangel, Marcos A.; … - 2009

extended family. Using data from the PROGRESA program in Mexico, we exploit information on the paternal and maternal surnames … family links of each household to others in the same village. We then exploit the randomized research design of the PROGRESA … the characteristics of extended family. We find PROGRESA only raises secondary enrolment among households that are …

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The value of private schools : evidence from Pakistan

Carneiro, Pedro; Das, Jishnu; Reis, Hugo - 2016

Using unique data from Pakistan we estimate a model of demand for differentiated products in 112 rural education 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...

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Learning about oneself : the effects of performance feedback on school choice

Bobba, Matteo; Frisancho Robles, Verónica - 2016

We design and implement a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high school. The intervention reduces the gap between expected and actual performance, as well as shrinks...

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Minimum age requirements and the impact of school choice

Cáceres-Delpiano, Julio; Giolito, Eugenio P. - 2018

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, and the difference across municipalities in the...

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Open enrolment and student achievement

Friesen, Jane; Harris, Benjamin Cerf; Woodcock, Simon D. - 2013

We investigate the effects of public school open enrolment, which allows students to enroll in any public school with available space, on fourth grade test scores. We find a small, positive effect on the average student; this benefit appears to stem from increased competition among schools,...

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Improving learning outcomes through information provision : evidence from Indian villages

Afridi, Farzana; Barooah, Bidisha; Somanathan, Rohini - 2017

We study whether information provision improves the academic performance of primary school children in a setting where parents have incomplete information about their child's cognitive skills and there exist competing public and private providers of education. Contiguous village councils in the...

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School choice and higher education attainment

Alessandrini, Diana; Milla, Joniada - 2022

We analyze how school vouchers affect post-secondary attainment by exploiting the universal voucher program implemented in Chile in 1981. The program allowed students to choose which primary and secondary schools to attend. The government covered tuition independently of whether the chosen...

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Perceived ability and school choices : experimental evidence and scale-up effects

Bobba, Matteo; Frisancho Robles, Verónica; Pariguana, Marco - 2023

This paper studies an information intervention designed and implemented in the context of a school assignment mechanism in Mexico City. We find that providing students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds with feedback about their academic performance contributes to placing...

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School choice and neighborhood sorting : equilibrium consequences of geographic school admissions

Greaves, Ellen; Turon, Hélène - 2024

Geographic school admissions criteria bind residential and school choices for some parents, and could create externalities in equilibrium for non-parents through displacement or higher rent. Through a dynamic structural model, we show that the policy decision of geographic versus non-geographic...

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Competitive effects of charter schools

Figlio, David N.; Hart, Cassandra M. D.; Karbownik, … - 2024

Using a rich dataset that merges student-level school records with birth records, and leveraging three alternative identification strategies, we explore how increase in access to charter schools in twelve districts in Florida affects students remaining in traditional public schools (TPS). We...

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