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Azmat, Ghazala; Simion, Stefania – Centre for Economic Performance, 2018
This paper investigates the impact of changes in the funding of higher education in England on students' choices and outcomes. Over the last two decades--through three major reforms in 1998, 2006 and 2012--undergraduate university education in public universities moved from being free to students and state funded to charging substantial tuition…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Finance, Finance Reform
Pathak, Parag A.; Sonmez, Tayfun – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011
In Fall 2009, officials from Chicago Public Schools changed their assignment mechanism for coveted spots at selective college preparatory high schools midstream. After asking about 14,000 applicants to submit their preferences for schools under one mechanism, the district asked them re-submit their preferences under a new mechanism. Officials were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Selective Admission, Educational Change, Comparative Education