, improving the efficiency of school seats allocation. I show that parents of low-ability males select schools with lower peer …Expanding parental choice in education may increase system-wide productivity if parents select schools that form a … specifically good match with their children. I investigate the effect of attending a preferred school on student achievement in …

We develop a model that analyzes the impact of residential neighborhood and parents' involvement in education on … quality of the neighborhood, the higher the parents' involvement in children's education, indicating cultural complementarity …. For high-educated parents, the child's educational attainment is more affected by the parents' involvement than by the …

We study the origins of what has become one of the most radical and encompassing programmes of school reform seen in … academies are conversions from already existent state schools and so are school takeovers that enable more autonomy. Our … schools experiencing the largest increase in their school autonomy relative to their predecessor state. Analysis of mechanisms …

We study the origins of what has become one of the most radical and encompassing programmes of school reform seen in … academies are conversions from already existent state schools and so are school takeovers that enable more autonomy. Our … schools experiencing the largest increase in their school autonomy relative to their predecessor state. Analysis of mechanisms …

middle school faced the longest closures. A structural model of human capital accumulation predicts that the US school …

middle school faced the longest closures. A structural model of human capital accumulation predicts that the US school …