, improving the efficiency of school seats allocation. I show that parents of low-ability males select schools with lower peer …Expanding parental choice in education may increase system-wide productivity if parents select schools that form a … specifically good match with their children. I investigate the effect of attending a preferred school on student achievement in …

compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers … with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for … example, that an improvement in parental outside options will reduce parental and school effort, which are partially …

consistent with parents valuing school impacts on outcomes not well-measured by test scores, while the pattern for males is …Recent studies document that, in many cases, the schools that parents prefer over others do not improve student test … scores. This could be because (a) parents cannot discern schools causal impacts, and/or (b) parents value schools that …

variation in school attendance, allowing us to remove self-selection bias. Despite large differences in teacher quality and peer … quality across these school types, we find little evidence of any relative benefit in attending an assisted school between the …

The literature on school choice assumes that families can submit a preference list over all the schools they want to be … school in the constrained list explains most manipulations. Competitiveness across schools plays an important role … constraint reduces significantly the proportion of subjects playing a dominated strategy. -- School Choice ; Matching …

accountability system's ranking of schools based on performance measures, and of a unique school level expenditure data set, to make … causal estimates of the effect of being ranked as "low-performing" on school spending decisions. The results indicate that …

We use a lab-in-the-field experiment to explore the influence of parents and peers in shaping adolescents’ beliefs on …

Do parents alter their investment in their child's human capital in response to changes in school inputs? If they do … by the teacher or the principal of the school and not by parents, but they are a consequence of student misbehavior. To …, then ignoring this effect will bias the estimates of school and parental inputs in educational production functions. This …

This paper builds upon Cunha's (2015) subjective rationality model in which parents have a subjective belief about the … future outcomes. Consistent with the theory, we show that maternal LOC measured at the 12th week of gestation strongly …