We define educational access as the component of a neighborhood's value that is
determined by the set of schools available to its residents. This paper studies the extent to …

We study the distributional effects of remote learning using a novel approach that combines
preference data from a conjoint survey experiment with administrative records of student …

Disadvantaged urban students attend lower-quality schools, on average, than their more
advantaged urban peers. This paper asks how information about school quality affects this …

This paper explores the dynamic relationship between school choices made at different
educational stages and how it affects racial segregation across schools. We use New York …

What is the efficacy of redrawing school attendance boundaries as a desegregation policy?
To provide causal evidence on this question we employ novel data with unprecedented …

Centralized school choice systems are being adopted widely, partly based on theoretical
results that promise desirable outcomes such as matching stability and strategyproofness …

Even though place-based policies involve large transfers toward low-income
neighborhoods, they may also produce territorial stigmatization by spotlighting the targeted …

Geographic school admissions criteria bind residential and school choices for some parents,
and could create externalities in equilibrium for non-parents through displacement or higher …

This study examines the impact of school choice on academic achievement. I use
differences in the number of schools across similar Romanian towns, generating variation in …

This thesis consists of three chapters on labor economics and the economics of education.
The first two chapters study the reasons behind racial disparities in school choices and …