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 …

data that matches high school preferences of the population of urban middle school graduates in one Chinese prefecture in … 2010 with high school student records. The standard admission channel is generally driven by merit subject to only nominal … announced school-specific admission thresholds in the city-wide High School Entrance Exam (HSEE) scores. Multiple-cutoff RDD …

achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The …