Many nations allow private entities to manage publicly funded schools and grant them greater flexibility than … traditional public schools. However, isolating the causal effect of attending these privately managed public schools relative to … attending traditional public schools is difficult because students who attend privately managed schools may differ in …

-Experimental methods to data from Trinidad and Tobago and estimate the causal impacts of individual schools on several outcomes. Schools … schools and employ discrete choice models to estimate parental preferences. Parents value schools that causally improve high …-dimensional output of schools, parents of high-achieving girls prefer schools, parents of high-achieving girls prefer schools that …

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 … Barbados. Using discrete choice models, we document that most parents have strong preferences for the same schools. Using a …

"Existing studies on single-sex schooling suffer from biases due to student selection to schools and single-sex schools … being better in unmeasured ways. In Trinidad and Tobago students are assigned to secondary schools based on an algorithm …-bound effects show that while students (particularly females) with strong expressed preferences for single-sex schools may benefit …