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 …

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 … proportion of children sent to each school type. Using a unique dataset on secondary school age children from rural Bangladesh …

education in many countries across the world. In this paper, in line with some recent studies, we value school quality using …' choice to attend high schools to identify the relationship between house prices and school performance. We exploit a change … in school choice policy that took place in Oslo county in 1997, where the school authorities opened up the possibility …

This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement …, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction … school construction raised reading scores for elementary and middle school students by 0.027 standard deviations. For a …

. 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 …

This paper investigates whether at the interaction between family background and school tracking affects human capital …

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 …