Approximating the Equilibrium Effects of Informed School Choice

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dc.contributor.authorAllende, Claudia
dc.contributor.authorGallego Yañez, Francisco Antonio
dc.contributor.authorNeilson, Christopher
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-16T20:57:40Z
dc.date.available2025-04-16T20:57:40Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThis paper studies the potential small and large scale effects of a policy designed to produce more informed consumers in the market for primary education. We develop and test a personalized information provision intervention that targets families of public Pre-K students entering elementary schools in Chile. Using a randomized control trial, we find that the intervention shifts parents’ choices toward schools with higher average test scores, higher value added, higher prices, and schools that tend to be further from their homes. Tracking students with administrative data, we find that student academic achievement on test scores was approximately 0.2 standard deviations higher among treated families five years after the intervention. To quantitatively gauge how average treatment effects might vary in a scaled up version of this policy, we embed the randomized control trial within a structural model of school choice and competition where price and quality are chosen endogenously and schools face capacity constraints. We use the estimated model of demand and supply to simulate policy effects under different assumptions about equilibrium constraints. In counterfactual simulations, we find that capacity constraints play an important role mitigating the policy effect but in several scenarios, the supply-side response increases quality, which contributes to an overall positive average treatment effect. Finally, we show how the estimated model can inform the design of a large scale experiment such that reduced form estimates can capture equilibrium effects and spillovers.
dc.fechaingreso.objetodigital2025-04-16
dc.format.extent52 páginas
dc.fuente.origenSIPA
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/103343
dc.information.autorucFacultad de Economía y Administración; Gallego Yañez, Francisco Antonio; 0000-0002-2252-891X; 94445
dc.language.isoen
dc.nota.accesocontenido completo
dc.publisherInstitute of Labor Economics (IZA)
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIRS Working Papers;No. 628
dc.rightsacceso abierto
dc.subject.ddc330
dc.subject.deweyEconomíaes_ES
dc.subject.ods04 Quality education
dc.subject.odspa04 Educación de calidad
dc.titleApproximating the Equilibrium Effects of Informed School Choice
dc.typedocumento de trabajo
sipa.codpersvinculados94445
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