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acceptance algorithm is employed after indifferences in school priorities are resolved by either random procedure. The main …
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Public schooling in the U.S. has numerous critics, many of whom suggest that alternatives such as providing vouchers for private schools may be more effective. This paper combines decennial census and American Community Survey data for various years to examine the relationship between...
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The literature suggests that competition among schools might increase quality. However, not much empirical evidence is present as only a few countries allow competition at a large scale. One exception is the Netherlands. Free parental choice is the leading principle of the Dutch education system...
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markets with significant choice among public and private schools. Our model accounts for the endogeneity of school fees and … the characteristics of students attending the school. As expected, central determinants of school choice are the distance … to school, school fees, and the characteristics of peers. Families are willing to pay on average between 75% and 115% of …
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markets with significant choice among public and private schools. Our model accounts for the endogeneity of school fees and … the characteristics of students attending the school. As expected, central determinants of school choice are the distance … to school, school fees, and the characteristics of peers. Families are willing to pay on average between 75% and 115% of …
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Unsophisticated applicants can be at a disadvantage under manipulable and hence strategically demanding school choice … admitted at a particular school, and hence may level the playing field between applicants who differ in their cognitive ability …
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used school admissions procedures: the Gale-Shapley mechanism and the Boston mechanism. In a lab experiment, I compare the …
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the effects of school closures on student achievement among displaced students … and future cohorts in Sweden. In contrast to previous studies that only analyze the effects of school closures on … disruption of the move. Furthermore, the study is one of the first quantitative studies to estimate the effects of school …
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