Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/289995 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-01421
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
This paper evaluates how new information influences families' applications and assignment outcomes in elementary school choice settings. Specifically, using a multi-country RCT based in Tacna, Peru and Manta, Ecuador, we examine the effect of providing personalized information on schooling alternatives and placement risk. We find that applicants who received feedback on placement risk and a suggestion of new schools add more schools to their applications and were more likely to include recommended schools than other alternatives available. Interestingly, the project implemented in Manta, Ecuador had only marginal effects for all outcomes. The main difference across implementations was the inclusion of outreach and information provision through an additional WhatsApp "warning" in Peru, which was not realized in Ecuador. A lower school density seems to have also been a contributing factor to the results observed in the Ecuadorian context.
Subjects: 
school information
school attributes
direct search
direct choice
choiceplatforms
Ecuador
Peru
JEL: 
I20
I21
I22
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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