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Direct linkAbdulkadiroglu, Atila; Andersson, Tommy – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022
School districts in the US and around the world are increasingly moving away from traditional neighborhood school assignment, in which pupils attend closest schools to their homes. Instead, they allow families to choose from schools within district boundaries. This creates a market with parental demand over publicly-supplied school seats. More…
Descriptors: School Choice, School Districts, Admission (School), Educational Policy
Bibler, Andrew; Billings, Stephen B.; Ross, Stephen – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
School choice lotteries are an important tool for allocating access to high-quality and oversubscribed public schools. While prior evidence suggests that winning a school lottery decreases adult criminality, there is little evidence for how school choice lotteries impact non-lottery students who are left behind at their neighborhood school. We…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Adults, Males, School Choice
Weiland, Christina; Unterman, Rebecca; Dynarski, Susan; Abenavoli, Rachel; Bloom, Howard; Braga, Breno; Faria, Ann-Marie; Greenberg, Erica H.; Jacob, Brian; Arnold Lincove, Jane; Manship, Karen; McCormick, Meghan; Miratrix, Luke; Monarrez, Tomás E.; Morris-Perez, Pamela; Shapiro, Anna; Valant, Jon; Weixler, Lindsay – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2023
Lottery-based identification strategies offer potential for generating the next generation of evidence on U.S. early education programs. Our collaborative network of five research teams applying this design in early education and methods experts has identified six challenges that need to be carefully considered in this next context: (1) available…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Admission (School)
Rees-Jones, Alex; Shorrer, Ran; Tergiman, Chloe J. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020
A growing body of evidence suggests that decision-makers fail to account for correlation in signals that they receive. We study the relevance of this mistake in students' interactions with school-choice matching mechanisms. In a lab experiment presenting simple and incentivized school-choice scenarios, we find that subjects tend to follow optimal…
Descriptors: Correlation, School Choice, Admission (School), Students
Smart Matching Platforms and Heterogeneous Beliefs in Centralized School Choice. Working Paper 28946
Arteaga, Felipe; Kapor, Adam J.; Neilson, Christopher A.; Zimmerman, Seth D. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021
Many school districts with centralized school choice adopt strategyproof assignment mechanisms to relieve applicants of the need to strategize on the basis of beliefs about their own admissions chances. This paper shows that beliefs about admissions chances shape choice outcomes even when the assignment mechanism is strategyproof by influencing…
Descriptors: School Choice, Admission (School), Beliefs, Foreign Countries
Ajayi, Kehinde F.; Friedman, Willa H.; Lucas, Adrienne M. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2020
Students often make school choice decisions with inadequate information. We present results from delivering information to randomly selected students (and some randomly selected parents) across 900 junior high schools in Ghana, a country with universal secondary school choice. We provided guidance on application strategies and reported the…
Descriptors: School Choice, Centralization, Access to Information, Junior High School Students
Field, Erica M.; Linden, Leigh L.; Malamud, Ofer; Rubenson, Daniel; Wang, Shing-Yi – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019
This paper estimates the impact of admission to formal vocational secondary programs on labor market outcomes in Mongolia. We conducted public lotteries to allocate scarce slots for approximately 8,000 students who applied to oversubscribed trades in 10 vocational schools during 2010, 2011, and 2012. We find that admission to oversubscribed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education, Secondary Education
Hoekstra, Mark; Mouganie, Pierre; Wang, Yaojing – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2016
Despite strong demand for attending high schools with better peers, there is mixed evidence on whether doing so improves academic outcomes. We estimate the cognitive returns to high school quality using administrative data on a high-stakes college entrance exam in China. To overcome selection bias, we use a regression discontinuity design that…
Descriptors: High Schools, High School Students, Peer Influence, Educational Environment
Deming, David J.; Hastings, Justine S.; Kane, Thomas J.; Staiger, Douglas O. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011
We study the impact of a public school choice lottery in Charlotte-Mecklenburg (CMS) on postsecondary attainment. We match CMS administrative records to the National Student Clearinghouse (NSC), a nationwide database of college enrollment. Among applicants with low-quality neighborhood schools, lottery winners are more likely than lottery losers…
Descriptors: Neighborhood Schools, School Choice, Enrollment, Public Schools
Dobbie, Will; Fryer, Roland G., Jr. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011
Publicly funded exam schools educate many of the world's most talented students. These schools typically contain higher achieving peers, more rigorous instruction, and additional resources compared to regular public schools. This paper uses a sharp discontinuity in the admissions process at three prominent exam schools in New York City to provide…
Descriptors: Public Schools, High Schools, Selective Admission, Urban Schools
Abdulkadiroglu, Atila; Hu, Weiwei; Pathak, Parag A. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2013
One of the most wideranging reforms in public education in the last decade has been the reorganization of large comprehensive high schools into small schools with roughly 100 students per grade. We use assignment lotteries embedded in New York City's high school match to estimate the effects of attendance at a new small high school on student…
Descriptors: Small Schools, High Schools, Selective Admission, Competitive Selection
Angrist, Joshua D.; Pathak, Parag A.; Walters, Christopher R. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011
Estimates using admissions lotteries suggest that urban charter schools boost student achievement, while charter schools in other settings do not. We explore student-level and school-level explanations for these differences using a large sample of Massachusetts charter schools. Our results show that urban charter schools boost achievement well…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Charter Schools, Educational Philosophy, Mathematics Achievement
Pathak, Parag A.; Sethuraman, Jay – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010
This paper formally examines two competing methods of conducting a lottery in assigning students to schools, motivated by the design of the centralized high school student assignment system in New York City. The main result of the paper is that a single and multiple lottery mechanism are equivalent for the problem of allocating students to schools…
Descriptors: Urban Education, High School Students, Student Placement, Admission (School)
Abdulkadiroglu, Atila; Pathak, Parag A.; Roth, Alvin E. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2009
The design of the New York City (NYC) High School match involved tradeoffs among efficiency, stability and strategy-proofness that raise new theoretical questions. We analyze a model with indifferences--ties--in school preferences. Simulations with field data and the theory favor breaking indifferences the same way at every school--single tie…
Descriptors: High Schools, Urban Schools, Efficiency, Student Placement
Hoxby, Caroline M.; Murarka, Sonali – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2009
We analyze all but a few of the 47 charter schools operating in New York City in 2005-06. The schools tend locate in disadvantaged neighborhoods and serve students who are substantially poorer than the average public school student in New York City. The schools also attract black applicants to an unusual degree, not only relative to New York City…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Urban Schools, Enrollment, Academic Achievement
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