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School choice and competition
Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Geest, Stephanie van der; Gradus, Raymond - 2008
The literature suggests that competition among schools might increase quality. However, not much empirical evidence is present as only a few countries allow competition at a large scale. One exception is the Netherlands. Free parental choice is the leading principle of the Dutch education system...
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Obvious mistakes in a strategically simple college admissions environment
Shorrer, Ran I.; Sóvágó, Sándor - 2017
In a centralized marketplace that was designed to be simple, we identify participants whose choices are dominated. Using administrative data from Hungary, we show that college applicants make obvious mistakes: they forgo the free opportunity to receive a tuition waiver worth thousands of...
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The heterogeneous effects of early track assignment on cognitive and non-cognitive skills
Cotofan, Maria; Diris, Ron; Schils, Trudie - 2019
Previous findings on (fleeting) relative age effects in school suggest that, given innate ability, too few younger and too many older students attend academic tracks. Using a regression discontinuity design around school-specific admission thresholds, we estimate the cognitive and non-cognitive...
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School choice and competition : evidence from the Netherlands
Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Geest, Stephanie van der; Gradus, Raymond - 2008
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The (un)importance of school assignment
Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Sóvágó, Sándor; … - 2023 - This version: November 2023
We combine data from the Amsterdam secondary-school match with register data and survey data to estimate the effects of not being assigned to one's first-ranked school on academic outcomes and on a wide range of other outcomes. For identification we use that secondaryschool assignment in...
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Transfers and exchange-stability in two-sided matching problems
Lazarova, Emiliya A.; Borm, Peter; Estévez-Fernández, … - 2014
In this paper we consider one-to-many matching problems where the preferences of the agents involved are represented by … matching to a matching of maximum total reward, one can always provide a compensation schedule that will be ex-post stable in … uses the fact that the core of an associated compensation matching game with constraints is nonempty. …
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A matching model for the backhaul problem
Demirel, Erhan; Ommeren, Jos van; Rietveld, Piet - 2007
result is inconsistent with empirical observations. In this paper, we develop a matching model to address this inconsistency … matching model is numerically applied to the inland navigation shipping market in the Rhine river area in Western-Europe. We …
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Equilibrium directed search with multiple applications
Albrecht, James W.; Gautier, Pieter; Vroman, Susan B. - 2003
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Middlemen : a directed search equilibrium approach
Watanabe, Makoto - 2012
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Simultaneous search and network efficiency
Gautier, Pieter; Holzner, Christian - 2011
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