Clara Fontdevila

The Paradox of School Choice? Experimental Evidence on Choice Architecture, Anxiety, and Satisfaction - Sarah Winchell Lenhoff, Huriya Jabbar, Fatima Varner, Gloria Stout, Kathleen Holloway, 2026 School choice policy is often touted as offering more choices to families whose school options are limited by traditional zoning. However, too many options or t...

This study started with a convo over coffee w/ Huriya Jabbar in 2017! We wrote two unsuccessful grant proposals, finally got internal funding, and then struggled through 4 journals to get the null findings published. Persistence and great colleagues for the win! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Should the State fund religious schools? In a new paper in
@bjse.bsky.social with Ellen Vanderhoven we argue that a situated understanding of how such schools affect the realisation of different values and educational goods is critical to policy action and debate www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Examining pro-equity redesigns of educational quasi-markets: a mechanism-based approach to their effects The redesign of educational quasi-market instruments has been gaining traction in response to the negative equity impacts of these policies, with various educational systems introducing adjustments...

Can policy calibrations make education quasi-markets more equitable? In a new open-access paper with
@adrianzancajo.bsky.social we propose and apply a mechanism-based approach to make sense of these reform efforts: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Migrant Origin Children and Child Poverty in Spain: A Decomposition Analysis - Child Indicators Research Southern and Eastern European countries have historically had high child poverty rates. In the case of Spain, child poverty rates for migrant origin children, a growing population group, have remained...

Migrant Origin Children and Child Poverty in Spain: A Decomposition Analysis, now OA!
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Looking forward to speaking next Monday on the normative tensions around faith-based schools, and what evidence adds to the picture. Come along!

It was great to share the results of this study at #AERA2025 yesterday. Many thanks to the panel and audience for such an engaging session!

Happening next Monday!

Looking forward to discussing the Research Handbook on Education Privatisation and Marketization next Monday the 28th of April. Drop by or join us live: cuboulder.zoom.us/j/98520681372

Thrilled to see this finally published! An amazing project developed with @clarafontdevila.bsky.social, Huriya Jabbar and @averger.bsky.social and Huriya Jabbar. It brings together 30 contributions from 50+ amazing authors.
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A brief summary of the 4 parts 👇