We show that, when school quality is measured by the educational standard and attaining the standard requires costly … relatively high cost of effort, who would find the high standards of the public school excessively demanding. With the key …

of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …

This paper studies a general school choice problem with or without outside options. The Gale-Shapley student …-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism (DA) has played a central role not only in theory but also in important practical applications …. We show that in problems where some students cannot credibly submit a single school as the only acceptable option, it is …

and empirically, the effects of these changes on public school performance (as measured by test scores) in Milwaukee. It … effects of public school incentives and performance. In the context of a theoretical model of public school and household …

This paper investigates how changing the length of school year, leaving the basic curriculum unchanged, affects … learning and subsequent earnings. I use variation introduced by the West-German short school years in 1966-67, which exposed … some students to a total of about two thirds of a year less of schooling while enrolled. I show that the short school years …