We study the allocation of indivisible objects (e.g. school seats) to agents by lotteries. Agents have preferences over …

Using several data sources from Chile, we study the impact of school choice at the time of starting primary school. To … study the contribution of school choice, we exploit the combination of multiple cutoffs defining the minimum age at entry … the same municipality, and whose birthday differs by a few days not only have their incentives to delay school entry …

As in many school districts around the world, prospective high-school students in Ghana are assigned to schools through … students engage in a costly search process to acquire information over school characteristics. The key insight of the model is … selective school, welfare would increase by 72%. We propose a mechanism design reform, and show that collecting preferences over …