improve the quality of the education provided. Surveys in Chile have suggested that parents are not aware of the performance … of their children's schools. In this paper, we assess the effect of public information of school quality on the school … choice by parents. We use a data set which includes measurements of the distance between homes and schools, and the …

One of the pillars of the educational voucher system instituted in Chile is that competition among schools to attract … students would improve the quality of the education provided. Surveys have suggested that families rank the distance of the … results of standardized tests. We use a novel data set which includes measures of the distance between homes and schools to …

How do parents choose among schools when they are allowed to do so? In this paper, we analyze detailed information of … schools, with the two most important dimensions being test scores and distance to school. Interestingly, at the same time, our …

information of school choices of about 80,000 students that lived in the Metropolitan Area of Santiago in Chile in 2002 and the …

information of school choices of about 80,000 students that lived in the Metropolitan Area of Santiago in Chile in 2002 and the …

information in the quality dimensions mentoring, infrastructure and students' satisfaction than with respect to research …

play a role for the average child. Distance to the next secondary school matters only for the two highest wealth quintiles … shed further light on this surprising result, the paper discusses various reasons why the distance to the nearest secondary …