In this paper, I relax one of the common assumptions made in standard school choice problems by allowing students to … rank not just schools, but school-cohort sized pairs. The intuition for this extension is the observation that a school at … maximum capacity is not the same object, from a student’s perspective, as the same school that is only partially filled …

The extent to which teachers and school directors are held to account may play a central role in determining education … paper investigates the relationship between an expanded set of school inputs, including proxies for the functionality of … characteristics, school resources and top-down accountability indicators are considered. An in-depth analysis of participatory …

different households. Because school quality might be endogenous to parents' choices, we identify the key parameters related to …Limitations in the ability of parents to compare schools have important implications for market oriented educational … systems, which rely on parents choices to improve quality through competition. To empirically study these limitations, we …

, they can affect parents' time allocation and family dynamics. This paper examines how extending the school day affects …Policies that extend the school day in elementary school provide an implicit childcare subsidy for families. As such … the extension in the school day by 3.5 hours leads to a significant increase in divorce rates. Moreover, the effect grows …

mechanisms, we then estimate how effects on attitudes, parents, and teachers could drive these results. Higher-achieving peers …