Agte, Patrick; Allende, Claudia; Kapor, Adam; Neilson, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper asks how search costs, limited awareness of schools, misperceptions of schools' attributes, and inaccurate … beliefs over unknown schools affect families' search and application decisions in Chile's nation wide school choice process …. We combine novel data on search activity with a panel of household surveys, administrative application data, randomized …