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Choice, Competition and Pupil Achievement

Gibbons, Steve; Machin, Stephen; Silva, Olmo - 2021

Choice and competition in education have found growing support from both policy makers and academics in the recent past. Yet, evidence on the actual benefits of market-oriented reforms is at best mixed. Moreover, while the economic rationale for choice and competition is clear, in existing work...

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Evaluating Trust and Trustworthiness in Social Groups and Networks

O'Higgins, Niall - 2018

experiment.This difference is higher the higher is the family level of income and the parental education status of the subjects …

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Minimum Age Requirements and the Impact of School Choice

Caceres-Delpiano, Julio - 2018

Using several data sources from Chile, we study the impact of school choice at the time of starting primary school. To study the contribution of school choice, we exploit the combination of multiple cutoffs defining the minimum age at entry, and the difference across municipalities in the...

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Should You Meet the Parents? The Impact of Information on Non-Test Score Attributes on School Choice

Facchetti, Elisa; Neri, Lorenzo; Ovidi, Marco - 2023

Understanding parental response to non-test score attributes is crucial to design effective school choice systems. We study an intervention providing parents with hard-to-find information on the school environment while holding information on school performance constant. The provision of this...

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School Choice Design, Risk Aversion, and Cardinal Segregation

Calsamiglia, Caterina - 2020

(student) segregation as that emerging when families with identical ordinal preferences submit different rankings of schools in … is sufficient vertical differentiation of schools, any equilibrium presents cardinal segregation. Transportation costs … facilitate the emergence of cardinal segregation as does competition from private schools. Furthermore, the latter renders the …

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Heterogeneous Peer Effects Under Endogenous Selection : An Application to Local and Migrant Children in Elementary Schools in Shanghai

Chen, Yuanyuan; Feng, Shuaizhang; Yang, Chao - 2022

This paper develops a model that allows for heterogenous contemporaneous peer effects among different types of agents who are endogenously selected into different peer groups. Using our framework, we characterize the reduced-form coefficient in the peer effect literature and show that it is a...

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Perceived Ability and School Choices : Experimental Evidence and Scale-Up Effects

Bobba, Matteo; Frisancho Robles, Verónica; Pariguana, Marco - 2023

This paper studies an information intervention designed and implemented in the context of a school assignment mechanism in Mexico City. We find that providing students from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds with feedback about their academic performance contributes to placing...

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Learning About Oneself : The Effects of Performance Feedback on School Choice

Bobba, Matteo - 2016

We design and implement a field experiment that provides students from less advantaged backgrounds with individualized …

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The Effect of Degree Attainment on Arrests : Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment

Amin, Vikesh - 2016

We examine the effect of educational attainment on criminal behavior using random assignment into Job Corps (JC) – the United States' largest education and vocational training program for disadvantaged youth – as a source of exogenous variability in educational attainment. We allow such...

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Peer Effects and Social Networks in Education

Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2021

This paper studies whether structural properties of friendship networks affect individual outcomes in education. We first develop a model that shows that, at the Nash equilibrium, the outcome of each individual embedded in a network is proportional to her Katz-Bonacich centrality measure. This...

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