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 …

, implying that school choice plans may have the smallest impact on the choices of the families they are targeting. This paper …-Mecklenburg Public School District (CMS) and a field experiment we designed and implemented as part of the district's 2006 school choice … plan to examine how transparent information on school-level academic performance affects the test scores of the schools …