Many cities with school choice programs employ algorithms to determine which applicants get seats in oversubscribed … schools. This study explores whether the New Orleans placement algorithm favored students of certain races or socioeconomic …

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 …

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 …

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has declared school voucher programs constitutional, the many unanswered questions … concerning the potential effects of school choice will become especially pressing. Contributors to this volume draw on state …-of-the-art economic methods to answer some of these questions, investigating the ways in which school choice affects a wide range of …

Education reforms must go furtherIncentivising Excellence considers the conditions that need to prevail for school … regarding the effects of school choice – encompassing cross-national studies, in-depth discussions of national choice programmes … efforts to introduce school choice, most attempts have been half-hearted, making it unsurprising that many of the reforms have …