vanishes when the market becomes large, given all others are truthful. The mechanism is particularly relevant to school choice …. We also discuss its application in school choice with affirmative action such as group-specific quotas and in one …

This paper studies the determinants of school choice, focusing on the role of information. We consider how parents … neighborhood and measure their capacity to rank the quality of the school with respect to the official rankings. We find that … parents’ education and wealth are important factors in determining their level of school awareness and information gathering …

Two main school choice mechanisms have attracted the attention in the literature: Boston and deferred acceptance (DA … getting into a good school are higher under the Boston mechanism than under DA, and some naive participants are actually …

Recently, several school districts in the US have adopted or consider adopting the Student-Optimal Stable mechanism or … the Top Trading Cycles mechanism to assign children to public schools. There is evidence that for school districts that … many US school districts but nevertheless yields stable Nash equilibrium outcomes. …

The literature on school choice assumes that families can submit a preference list over all the schools they want to be … school in the constrained list explains most manipulations. Competitiveness across schools play an important role …

The Boston mechanism is a school allocation procedure that is widely used around the world. To resolve overdemands …, priority is often given to families who live in the neighborhood school. We note that such priorities define some schools as … school choice under the BM with priorities: (1) the resulting allocation is not very different from a neighborhood …

to this debate by developing and estimating a model of school choices by households under one of the most popular …

We compare popular school choice mechanisms in terms of children's access to better schools (ABS) than their catchment … area school, in districts with school stratification and where priority is given for residence in the catchment area of the … school. In a large market model with two good schools and one bad school, we calculate worst-case and best-case bounds of the …

We experimentally investigate in the laboratory two prominent mechanisms that are employed in school choice programs to …