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 …

We study a new variant of the school choice problem in which capacities can be altered by distributing additional seats …

When applying to schools, students often submit applications to distinct school systems that operate independently … Acceptance mechanism with both divided (DecDA) and unified markets (DA). Consistent with the theory, we find that both stability …

and school-by-grade fixed effects in addition to observable family and school characteristics. The analysis also addresses …. Moreover, students throughout the school test score distribution appear to benefit from higher achieving schoolmates. On the …

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 …

We introduce a generalization of the school choice problem motivated by the following observations: students are … assigned to grades within schools, many students have siblings who are applying as well, and school districts commonly … guarantee that siblings will attend the same school. This last condition disqualifies the standard approach of considering …

We show that, when school quality is measured by the educational standard and attaining the standard requires costly … relatively high cost of effort, who would find the high standards of the public school excessively demanding. With the key …

of assessing the impact of education quality, the teacher contribution to pupils' achievement and the effect of school …