This paper studies an information intervention designed and implemented in the context of a school assignment mechanism … graduate on time from high school at a higher rate. We also quantify the effect of a counterfactual and yet feasible …

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 … mistake. These findings question the effectiveness of equal access provided by school choice, and we argue it can be improved …

within-group sorting, we conducted our field experiment within primary school classrooms where a pair of deskmates forms the …

of advanced math-science in high school. We show how it amplified the fall in math-science skills and triggered gender … school-cohort peer group that alters the importance of identity costs. The model allows for both complementarity and … conformity) arises endogenously in equilibrium when individuals infer the social norm from their school-cohort peers' education …

with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for … example, that an improvement in parental outside options will reduce parental and school effort, which are partially … compensated through school resources. In this way, by incorporating the behavioral responses of parents, teachers and policymakers …

Many cities with school choice programs employ algorithms to determine which applicants get seats in oversubscribed …

School districts in the US and around the world are increasingly moving away from traditional neighborhood school … district boundaries. This creates a market with parental demand over publicly-supplied school seats. More frequently than ever …, this market for school seats is cleared via market design solutions grounded in recent advances in matching and mechanism …

We take school admission mechanisms to the lab to test whether the manipulable Boston mechanism disadvantages students …: lower ability participants receive a lower average payoff and are over-represented at the worst school. Under the strategy … “level the playing field”. However, we document a trade-off between equality and efficiency in the choice of school admission …