In this paper we look at school choice in primary schools in Germany. The data used is from Wuppertal, a major city in … North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW), where school districts were abolished in 2008 to allow for free school choice. Here we look at … the situation before 2008 to learn more about choice in the presence of school districts. Our analysis shows that it is …

This paper analyzes housing market reactions to the release of previously unpublished information on school quality ….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 …

In 2008, school districts were abolished in North Rhine-Westphalia. The paper focuses on the question whether … neighborhood characteristics have an influence on the school choice behavior of parents with different socioeconomic and cultural … resources. The analysis is based on data of a telephone survey of N = 1576 parents combined with data from school statistics and …

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 …

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 …

-called peer group games being non-negative additive games on a permission tree. We provide a polynomial time algorithm for …

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