consequences of failing to gain admission to one's first-choice secondary school in England. Our empirical strategy leverages … features of the institutional setting and the literature on school choice to make a case for a selection …-on-observables identifying assumption. Failing to gain a place at a preferred school had null to small impacts on short-run academic attainment …

and private schooling on student scores in Australia. We control for observable and unobservable influences, at school and …

school track suitable for their child, changing the purpose of the primary teacher's recommendation from mandatory to … rates to the higher school tracks increased substantially, with stronger responses among children from richer districts …. Simultaneously, grade repetition in the first grades of second-ary school increased dramatically, suggesting that parents choose …

school track suitable for their child, changing the purpose of the primary teacher's recommendation from mandatory to … rates to the higher school tracks increased substantially, with stronger responses among children from richer districts …. Simultaneously, grade repetition in the first grades of secondary school increased dramatically, suggesting that parents choose …

which combined the two lower secondary school tracks, sometimes additionally offering the possibility to acquire a … school degree, attending the most academic track, or repeating a grade. …

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 …

We examine the differences in an index of standardized test performance of urban private/public school seniors by race … exogenous variables to control for individual traits, family background, etc., we treat both student performance and school … choice as jointly endogenous in the context of a simultaneous equations model with a latent variable: school choice. We find …

administrative data on delivered and timetabled instruction time in each grade throughout compulsory school for three full cohorts of …