Approximating the Equilibrium Effects of Informed School Choice -- by Claudia Allende, Francisco Gallego, Christopher Neilson

The authors wish to thank Steve Berry, Ryan Cooper, Michael Dinerstein, Francisco Lagos, Chris Walters, and Román Andrés Zárate for useful comments and discussions. We thank the constructive comments from conference participants at the RESTUD Tour 40th Reunion, the NBER Summer Institute IO and Education group meetings and the Y-RISE inaugural conference, as well as seminar and workshop participants at MIT, UCL, UC San Diego, NYU, Princeton, University of Bergen, University of Oslo, PUC-Chile and Yale University. We thank Ryan Cooper for efficiently leading the project development at JPAL-LAC; Josefa Aguirre, Jorge Cariola, José I. Cuesta, Cristián Larroulet, and Cristián Ugarte for excellent research assistance during the fieldwork during 2009-2010; Magdalena Zahri, Ximena Poblete, and Francisca Zegers for help with the production of the information instruments; OPINA and EKHOS for field work; and FONDECYT (Grant No. 1100623) and Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University for financial support. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

I am the founder and interim CEO of ConsiliumBots, a nonprofit that works with government agencies including the Ministry of Education of the Dominican Republic (MINERD). I have not received financial compensation from ConsiliumBots or from any other source in relation to this project. I am also the founder and CEO of TetherEducation, a GovTech startup in which I hold an equity stake but receive no compensation TetherEducation has never held any contracts with MINERD, and this research was completed before TetherEducation was founded.

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