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schools. To explain the observed data, we introduce expectationbased loss aversion into a school-choice setting and …
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strong support for these solutions in a laboratory experiment, and show how they can be simply implemented for popular school … determine their matched school, such as other students' preferences or school priorities. This can lead to doubts about whether … disclosing sensitive private information like other students' preferences or school priorities. In particular, we show that the …
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achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The …
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We study the welfare effects of school district consolidation, i.e. the integration of disjoint school districts into a …-demanded districts. Using data from the Hungarian secondary school assignment mechanism, we compute the actual welfare gains from … welfare gains from district consolidation for students, equivalent to attending a school five kilometres closer to the …
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school choice mechanisms, namely deferred and immediate acceptance mechanisms. Some seats are allocated based on merit (e … students, and the student composition at schools, using theory and experiments. We find that the lottery quota strengthens … equilibrium for the immediate acceptance mechanism. This finds support in the experiment. Moreover, the lottery quota leads to …
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We investigate fairness preferences in matching mechanisms using a spectator design. Participants choose between the Boston mechanism or the serial dictatorship mechanism (SD) played by others. In our setup, the Boston mechanism generates justified envy, while the strategy-proof SD ensures...
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If school closures and social-distancing experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic impeded children’s skill development …, they may leave a lasting legacy in human capital. To understand the pandemic’s effects on school children, this paper … on the conceptual framework of an education production function, we cover evidence on child, parent, and school inputs …
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