We estimate the effect of publicly disseminated information about school-level achievement on students' mobility … between elementary schools. We find that students are more likely to leave their school when poor school-level performance is …

A large school consolidation reform in the Netherlands changed minimum school size rules underlying public funding. The … of schools implies, for a given number of pupils, an increase in average school size. We present evidence that in our …

This paper evaluates average educational performance effects of an expanding independent-school sector at the … increase in the share of independent-school students between Swedish municipalities. We find that an increase in the share of … independent-school students improves average performance at the end of compulsory school as well as long-run educational outcomes …

contrast to the theory, we find that Islamic school demand does not respond to the average quality of schools in the locality. …This paper looks at the determinants of school selection in rural Bangladesh, focusing on the choice between registered … religious values. We investigate how household income, religious preferences, schooling costs, and school quality affect the …

. 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 …

Intergenerational mobility in income and education is affected by the influence of parents on children's school choices …. Our focus is on the role played by different school systems in reducing or magnifying the impact of parents on children …'s school choices and therefore on intergenerational mobility in general. We compare two apparently similar educational systems …

evaluation data to identify whether the treatment effects of PROGRESA transfers on secondary school enrolment vary according to … school. …

the German state of Hessen to measure the persistence of school entry age's impact on choice of secondary school track …. Based on exogenous variation in the school entry age by birth month, we obtain regression discontinuity estimates for … different cohorts and grades up to the end of secondary education. We show that the effect of original school entry age on a …

This paper analyzes whether information on high school quality published by a national newspaper affects school choice … in the Netherlands. For this purpose, we use both school level and individual student level data. First, we study the … causal effect of quality scores on the influx of new high school students using a longitudinal school dataset. We find that …