schools. In Trinidad and Tobago, students are assigned to secondary schools based on an algorithm that created exogenous … 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 …

Is a school's impact on high-stakes test scores a good measure of its overall impact on students? Do parents value … school impacts on high-stakes tests, longer-run outcomes, or both? To answer the first question, we apply quasi … labor market participation. To answer the second question, we link estimated school impacts to parent's ranked lists of …

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 …

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 …