has made it a more important factor in choosing a school. -- vouchers ; school choice ; distance ; information ; Chile … improve the quality of the education provided. Surveys in Chile have suggested that parents are not aware of the performance … of their children’s schools. In this paper, we assess the effect of public information of school quality on the school …

We analyze how school vouchers affect post-secondary attainment by exploiting the universal voucher program implemented … in Chile in 1981. The program allowed students to choose which primary and secondary schools to attend. The government … covered tuition independently of whether the chosen school was private or public. We find that vouchers increased the …

For over twenty years, a voucher system has been used in Chile to promote competition in the educational system between …

) have all the relevant information they need to make proper decisions. We address this issue by exploiting the data … information on students' pre-test enrollment intentions, their final track choices and their performances in the upper secondary … Arianna. However, students (and their parents) are likely to revise their initial choice when new information on their true …

drive parents' school choosing is still scarce. We use census data from a parents' survey in Chile, a country with a …

How do parents choose among schools when they are allowed to do so? In this paper, we analyze detailed information of … schools, with the two most important dimensions being test scores and distance to school. Interestingly, at the same time, our …