When Information is Not Enough: Evidence from a Centralized School Choice System

For useful comments and suggestions we thank Felipe Barerra-Osorio, Jim Berry, Eric Chyn, Justine Hastings, Chris Neilson, Jeremy Tobacman, and seminar participants at Georgetown University, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Howard University, the University of Delaware, the University of Minnesota, the E-con of Education Virtual Seminar, and the Ghana Education Evidence Summit. We gratefully acknowledge funding from the Post-Primary Education Initiative of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), the Weiss Family Program Fund, and the University of Delaware Institute for Global Studies' Global Exchange Program. For exceptional support in Ghana we thank Kym Cole, Jonathan Addie, Cornelius Adjei, and Helen Habib. Phillip Ross provided excellent research assistance. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, the National Bureau of Economic Research or the governments of the countries they represent. AEA RCT Registry number AEARCTR-0001017. The Boston University, Innovations for Poverty Action, and University of Delaware IRBs approved this project. Ghana Education Service reviewed and approved the research protocol.

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