This paper investigates the effect of a policy-induced increase in public school competition on private school … expanded public school choice opportunities and increased competitive pressure on private schools. Using a new data set … constructed from mandatory nonprofit information returns and school enrollment records, I find that an increase in public school …

used school admissions procedures: the Gale-Shapley mechanism and the Boston mechanism. In a lab experiment, I compare the …

We study whether information provision improves the academic performance of primary school children in a setting where … either intra or both intra and inter school performance of students in curriculum based tests. We find significant … improvement in test scores of private school students by 0.31 standard deviations when information on both absolute and relative …

Each year, millions of middle school graduates in China take a standardized test and compete for high school positions … policy in Guangzhou's high school admission. …