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Lotteries in Student Assignment : An Equivalence Result

Pathak, Parag A. - 2010

This paper formally examines two competing methods of conducting a lottery in assigning students to schools, motivated by the design of the centralized high school student assignment system in New York City. The main result of the paper is that a single and multiple lottery mechanism are...

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Matching with Couples : Stability and Incentives in Large Markets

Kojima, Fuhito - 2010

doctors and psychologists, because couples view pairs of jobs as complements. A stable matching may not exist when couples are … present. We find conditions under which a stable matching exists with high probability in large markets. We present a … mechanism that finds a stable matching with high probability, and which makes truth-telling by all participants an approximate …

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Strategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences : Redesigning the New York City High School Match

Abdulkadiroglu, Atila - 2009

The design of the New York City (NYC) High School match involved tradeoffs among efficiency, stability and strategy-proofness that raise new theoretical questions. We analyze a model with indifferences--ties--in school preferences. Simulations with field data and the theory favor breaking...

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The Welfare Effects of Coordinated Assignment : Evidence from the NYC HS Match

Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila - 2015

Coordinated single-offer school assignment systems are a popular education reform. We show that uncoordinated offers in NYC's school assignment mechanism generated mismatches. One-third of applicants were unassigned after the main round and later administratively placed at less desirable...

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Leveraging Lotteries for School Value-Added : Testing and Estimation

Angrist, Joshua - 2015

Conventional value-added models (VAMs) compare average test scores across schools after regression-adjusting for students' demographic characteristics and previous scores. This paper tests for VAM bias using a procedure that asks whether VAM estimates accurately predict the achievement...

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