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Universal student enrollment systems : the more policies change, the more enrollment patterns stay the same

Sartain, Lauren; Lewers, Riley; Barrow, Lisa - 2022

equitable for students to enroll in schools that are a good fit for them. These universal enrollment systems offer a one …-stop shop for students to learn about different options, submit applications, and receive and accept offers. Using the … largest gains appear to be from streamlining applications and offers, with students receiving a single-best offer and schools …

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The welfare effects of including household preferences in school assignment systems : evidence from Ecuador

Elacqua, Gregory; Jacas, Isabel; Krussig, Thomas; … - 2022

We study the welfare produced by a coordinated school assignment system that is based exclusively on minimizing distance to schools, comparing the matches it produces to a system that includes household preferences using a deferred acceptance algorithm. We leverage administrative data and a...

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Report cards : parental preferences, information and school choice in Haiti

Bogner, Michael; Elacqua, Gregory; Jacas, Isabel; … - 2023

This paper studies school choice and information in the context of education markets in rural Haiti. Using a market level randomized control trial, we evaluate the aggregate effect of providing test score information on subsequent test scores, prices, and enrollment. After the intervention, we...

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School Choice in Chile : Looking at the Demand Side

Gallego, Francisco A.; Hernando, Andres - 2010

How do parents choose among schools when they are allowed to do so? In this paper, we analyze detailed information of 70,000 fourth-graders attending about 1,200 publicly subsidized schools in the context of the Chilean voucher system. We model the school choice of a household as a discrete...

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Do school budgets matter? : the effect of budget referenda on student performance

Lee, Kyung-Gon; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2014

This paper analyzes how changes in school expenditures affect dropout rates and standardized test scores based on data from 465 school districts in New York during the 2003/04 to the 2008/09 school years. Past traditional regression approaches show inconsistent results of school expenditures...

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