The rational choice framework for modeling matching markets has been tremendously
useful in guiding the design of school-assignment systems. Despite this success, a large …

This paper uses variation in school assignments generated by Mexico City's public high
school choice mechanism to document a strong causal influence of older siblings on their …

Merit‐based school choice often presents an unfulfilled promise of educational mobility. In
Ghana, where a standardized exam determines secondary school admission, students from …

2This rule of thumb is a commonly accepted guideline for college choice in the US. The
website www. go4ivy. com defines the following thresholds for school types: Reach/Stretch …

We study the interaction between family and school inputs by identifying the causal impact of
information about school quality on parental time investment into children. Inspection ratings …

A growing body of evidence suggests that many people struggle with decision-making in the
presence of correlation. In typical examples of this problem, decision-makers are presented …

Applicants to schools, colleges, and jobs hedge by applying to a broad range of options,
including reaches, matches, and safeties. We develop a simultaneous-search framework …

Students often make school choice decisions with inadequate information. We present
results from delivering information to randomly selected students (and some randomly …

Over the past decade, Kenya's traditional model of local, community finance and
management of schools has been crowded out from two directions. First, the Kenyan …

A college applicant faces the following risky choice: she applies to a portfolio of colleges
while being uncertain about which school would admit her. Admissions decisions are …