regression-discontinuity design, we estimate the causal impact of attending a preferred school on a broad array of outcomes. As … consistent with parents valuing school impacts on outcomes not well-measured by test scores, while the pattern for males is …

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 … compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers …

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 …

more than one school. Yet, little is known about the impact of multiple school jobs on teachers' productivity. This paper … one school. We use longitudinal data of students and teachers from the municipality of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over a … period of 7 years and exploit within teacher-school-grade variation in the number of school jobs over time. We found …

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 …

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 …

We use a new empirical strategy to test various measures of school effectiveness in England. Our approach exploits … for oversubscribed schools. We show that raw, unadjusted test score outcomes of schools are biased estimators of school … value added models which adjust school test scores for difference in the prior attainment of their intake produce unbiased …

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 …