We study the welfare produced by a coordinated school assignment system that is based exclusively on minimizing … satisfaction support these conclusions. The evidence indicates that coordinated school choice and assignment systems can have large …

This paper studies school choice and information in the context of education markets in rural Haiti. Using a market …

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 …

specifically good match with their children. I investigate the effect of attending a preferred school on student achievement in … assignment which awards school offer based on admission priority, residential distance, and parental preference. I compare … school of choice increases student achievement compared to an institution with lower parental preference but same value …

individualized feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high school. The intervention reduces the gap … in shaping curricular choices. The shift in revealed preferences on high school tracks enabled by the intervention …

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 …

universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects … that may better reflect the effects of school practices. We find significant effects of schools on scores in high …-stakes college entrance exams: a 1 standard deviation increase in school quality leads to 0.06-0.08 standard deviations higher …