Increasingly, more school districts across the US are using centralized admissions for charter, magnet, and … neighborhood schools in a common enrollment system. We first show that, across all school-participation patterns, full … participation in the common (or unified) enrollment system leads to the most preferred outcome for students. Second, we show that …

universal random assignment of students to high schools in certain areas of South Korea to provide estimates of school effects … estimates, while causal, may also reflect peer effects due to differences in peer quality of non-randomized students. We exploit … that may better reflect the effects of school practices. We find significant effects of schools on scores in high …

We investigate the effects of public school open enrolment, which allows students to enroll in any public school with …, students whose catchment school is locally lowest-ranked earn higher scores when they have access to better local schools …. Students in both groups benefit from increased school competition. …