Increasingly, more school districts across the US are using centralized admissions for charter, magnet, and … neighborhood schools in a common enrollment system. We first show that, across all school-participation patterns, full …

Each year, millions of middle school graduates in China take a standardized test and compete for high school positions … policy in Guangzhou's high school admission. …

-19 admissions. In this clearinghouse, each student can simultaneously be admitted to a selective and a nonselective school. We study … one school, is better for all students. We also examine systems with two stages of admissions, which has also been …

books at home and a variable combining the type and location of their school represent the most important predictors of … student performance in all of the analysed countries, while other school characteristics are rarely relevant. Econometric … Portugal. Considering only general school students, the differences between big and small cities are not statistically …