This paper studies an information intervention designed and implemented in the context of a school assignment mechanism … in Mexico City. We find that providing students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds with feedback about … graduate on time from high school at a higher rate. We also quantify the effect of a counterfactual and yet feasible …

We study the effect of standardized external tests on students’ academic outcomes. We exploit the fact that only one of …-in-difference methodology using outcomes of the PISA study from 2000 to 2009. We later confirm our results using synthetic control methods … improves student outcomes. A key novelty is that our exams do not have academic consequences for the students, so effects have …

Geographic school admissions criteria bind residential and school choices for some parents, and could create … the policy decision of geographic versus non-geographic school admissions criteria has important implications for … equilibrium outcomes in school and housing markets. Geographic admissions criteria segregate schools, but integrate neighborhoods …

We study self-selection in centralized school choice, a strategy that takes place when students submit preferences … schools are zero, she may not rank them even when the mechanism is strategyproof. Using data from the Mexico City high school …, students from low socioeconomic backgrounds are more likely to self-select. Second, some students self-select by mistake, and …

This paper designs and implements a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with … individualized feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high school. The intervention reduces the gap … in shaping curricular choices. The shift in revealed preferences on high school tracks enabled by the intervention …

samples of primary school students and their parents. This constitutes a large-scale randomized social experiment for testing …

affect younger sibling's education choices and early career earnings. We focus on critical course choices in high school and …

We design and implement a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized … feedback on academic performance during the transition from middle to high school. The intervention reduces the gap between … Bayesian model, we empirically document the interplay between variance reductions and mean changes of beliefs about students …