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 …

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 …

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 …

The 2010 primary school reform in the UK aimed at giving schools more autonomy and freedom from local council's control … academy or joining an academy chain. However, the majority of studies have focused solely on the impact of school conversion … impact of the two different models of school governance on students' achievement. We exploit an instrumental variable …

this paper, we empirically explore the determinants of accepting a public school assignment and, subsequently, remaining in … estimate the influence of distance on the decision to accept a public school placement, and we explore its role in the decision … families care about distance from home to the assigned public school as well as the relative academic and peer quality with …

socioeconomic integration within the school system. We focus on pre-kindergarden (pre-K) admissions, which account for the highest … centralized system. We employ a discrete choice model to analyze parents school preferences. Our analysis reveals that the school … centralized admission systems on reducing segregation. By recognizing the non-academic factors driving school choices …

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 …