Understanding parental response to non-test score attributes is crucial to design effective school choice systems. We … study an intervention providing parents with hard-to-find information on the school environment while holding information on … school performance constant. The provision of this information decreases the outflow to private institutions by 17% and …

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 …

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 …

School choice may allow schools to impede access to students perceived as costlier to educate. To test this, we sent … emails from fictitious parents to 6,452 charter schools and traditional public schools subject to school choice in 29 states … and Washington, D.C. The fictitious parent asked whether any student is eligible to apply to the school and how to apply …

collected within the Arianna Project, an independent school track counseling service run by the municipality of a large city in …Previous research shows that, in tracked school systems, enrollment decisions are strongly associated with future … school. We show that students' enrollment intentions are very often inconsistent with their actual potential as revealed by …

Many cities with school choice programs employ algorithms to determine which applicants get seats in oversubscribed … schools. This study explores whether the New Orleans placement algorithm favored students of certain races or socioeconomic …

the same municipality, and whose birthday differs by a few days not only have their incentives to delay school entry …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 …

end of secondary school. We provide empirical evidence of self-productivity of skills and of complementarity between … secondary school inputs and skills at the end of primary school. Our inference relies on idiosyncratic variation in school … ability is 0.221 and the return to school expenditure is three times higher for students at the top of the past attainment …

This paper evaluates the effects of a major Swedish school choice reform. The reform in 1992 increased school choice … effects of school choice and competition, using precise geographical information on the locations of school buildings and …. We can measure the long-term effects up to age 25. We find that increased school choice had very small, but positive …