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 …

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 …

acceptance algorithm is employed after indifferences in school priorities are resolved by either random procedure. The main …

Free school choice has often been argued to be a tide that lifts school quality through increased competition. This … paper analyzes the underlying assumption that school quality is an important choice criterion for parents. Using a large and … representative data set of over 15,000 Dutch primary school starters we estimate models of school demand that incorporate …