specifically good match with their children. I investigate the effect of attending a preferred school on student achievement in … assignment which awards school offer based on admission priority, residential distance, and parental preference. I compare … school of choice increases student achievement compared to an institution with lower parental preference but same value …

I show that parents select schools by considering attributes of the student-school match that improve the learning … outcomes beyond average school quality. Using the centralized algorithm for offers to primary school in London, I compare the … most-preferred school versus an institution ranked lower increases achievement by 0.10 SD beyond school value-added among …

In this paper, I relax one of the common assumptions made in standard school choice problems by allowing students to … rank not just schools, but school-cohort sized pairs. The intuition for this extension is the observation that a school at … maximum capacity is not the same object, from a student’s perspective, as the same school that is only partially filled …

1980's. This paper analyzes the effect of school choice and local educational policies on that inequality, known as school … Hungarian towns, free school choice diminishes the role of residential distribution because many students commute to schools of … their choice. Towns where such commuting is more pronounced are characterized by stronger inter-school inequalities. We also …

By the 2008/09 school year the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) abolished binding school catchment … areas (SCAs) in all municipalities. The reform has been controversial and it was feared that school choice would increase …

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. …