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 …

The literature on school choice assumes that families can submit a preference list over all the schools they want to be … school in the constrained list explains most manipulations. Competitiveness across schools plays an important role … constraint reduces significantly the proportion of subjects playing a dominated strategy. -- School Choice ; Matching …

We model centralized school matching as a second stage of a simple Tiebout-model and show that the two most discussed … disadvantaged if the school priorities are based on ex ante known (social) differences of the applicants. …

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 …

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 …

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