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Bobba, Matteo
, Frisancho, Veronica and Pariguana, Marco
(2026)
Perceived Ability and School Choices: Experimental Evidence and Scale-up Effects.
TSE Working Paper, n. 16-660, Toulouse
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Abstract
This paper explores an information intervention designed and implemented within a school assignment mechanism in Mexico City. Through a randomized experiment, we show that providing a subset of applicants with feedback about their academic performance can enhance sorting by skill across high school tracks. We embed the experimental variation into an empirical model of schooling choice and outcomes to assess the impact of the intervention for the overall population of applicants. Feedback provision is shown to increase the eciency of the student-school allocation, while congestion externalities are detrimental for the equity of downstream education outcomes.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Language: | English |
| Date: | March 2026 |
| Place of Publication: | Toulouse |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Information, Subjective expectations, Beliefs updating, Biased beliefs, School choice, Discrete choice models, Control function, Stable matching |
| JEL Classification: | D83 - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief I21 - Analysis of Education J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity |
| Subjects: | B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE |
| Divisions: | TSE-R (Toulouse) |
| Institution: | Université Toulouse 1 Capitole |
| Site: | UT1 |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jun 2016 09:52 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Mar 2026 14:01 |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:tse-fr.eu:30494 |
| URI: | https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/22052 |
