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 …

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 …

consequences of failing to gain admission to one's first-choice secondary school in England. Our empirical strategy leverages … features of the institutional setting and the literature on school choice to make a case for a selection …-on-observables identifying assumption. Failing to gain a place at a preferred school had null to small impacts on short-run academic attainment …

less education for their children, even when offered financial compensation for school attendance. Each school year, half … of recipients forgo income for which they are eligible by failing to send children to school. Using a random effects … dependents and high school students, recipients with limited education, and those living in large urban areas are less likely to …

High school track choice determines college access in many countries. We hypothesize that some qualified students avoid …

This paper considers the estimation of sequential schooling decisions made by agents who are endowed with subjective … differences in intertemporal utilities of school and work independently from the present component, (as in Geweke and Keane, 1995 … the degree of confidence (a measure of spread) and the incidence of over (and under) estimation. I find that the future …

This paper considers the estimation of sequential schooling decisions made by agents who are endowed with subjective … differences in intertemporal utilities of school and work independently from the present component, (as in Geweke and Keane, 1995 … degree of confidence (a measure of spread) and the incidence of over (and under) estimation. I find that the future component …