Public school choice programs give households a free choice of public school and provide schools incentives to compete … schools, since households' perceptions of school quality depend not only on the efforts of school personnel but also on the … analyzing an economic model of public school choice. To capture the pro-choice argument, the model assumes that a neighborhood …

there is little evidence as to why. We use a field experiment in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Public School district (CMS) to …The incentives and outcomes generated by public school choice depend to a large degree on parents' choice behavior …. We provided simplified information sheets on school average test scores or test scores coupled with estimated odds of …

School choice has become an increasingly prominent strategy for urban school districts seeking to enhance academic … advantage of these programs. To overcome this difficulty, we exploit randomized lotteries that determine high school admission …

A central argument for school choice is that families value the freedom to exercise choice and can make wise decisions …. This principle may underlie why lottery-based school evaluations, which exploit over-subscription due to excess demand … to these results. We evaluate the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP), a school voucher plan providing public funds for …

Does a school district that expands school choice provide better outcomes for students than a neighborhood …-based assignment system? This paper studies the Zones of Choice (ZOC) program, a school choice initiative of the Los Angeles Unified … School District (LAUSD) that created small high school markets in some neighborhoods but left attendance-zone boundaries in …

This paper studies how welfare outcomes in centralized school choice depend on the assignment mechanism when … participants are not fully informed. Using a survey of school choice participants in a strategic setting, we show that beliefs … of belief errors, we estimate a model of school choice that incorporates subjective beliefs. We evaluate the equilibrium …

Students often make school choice decisions with inadequate information. We present results from delivering information … with universal secondary school choice. We provided guidance on application strategies and reported the selectivity and …

In this paper, we use a unique two-stage experiment that randomized access to school vouchers across both markets and … students in rural India to estimate the revealed preference value of school choice. In the first step of the research design …, we develop an empirical model of school choice subject to liquidity and credit constraints that is estimated using data …

scores. Using random variation from each experiment, we find evidence that attending a higher-scoring school increases …We analyze two experiments that provided direct information on school test scores to lower-income families in a public … school choice plan. We find that receiving information significantly increases the fraction of parents choosing higher …

of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …