This paper analyzes housing market reactions to the release of previously unpublished information on school quality …. Using the sharp discontinuity in the information environment allows us to study price changes within school catchment areas …, thus controlling for neighborhood unobservables. We find a substantial housing market reaction to publication 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 …

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

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 …

In the Austrian (as well as the German) education system students have to choose between different school tracks at the …

We estimate the effect of publicly disseminated information about school-level achievement on students' mobility … between elementary schools. We find that students are more likely to leave their school when poor school-level performance is …