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Matching Mechanisms and Matching Quality : Evidence from a Top School in China
Wu, Binzhen - 2013
We compare competing college admission matching mechanisms that differ in preference submission timing (pre-exam, post …-exam but pre-score, or post-score) and in matching procedure (Boston (BOS) and serial dictatorship (SD) matching). Pre … or SD matching are ex-post fair and efficient, they are not so ex-ante. Instead, the mechanism with pre-exam submission …
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School Choice and Class Size Externalities
Copland, Andrew - 2023
In this paper, I relax one of the common assumptions made in standard school choice problems by allowing students to rank not just schools, but school-cohort sized pairs. The intuition for this extension is the observation that a school at maximum capacity is not the same object, from a...
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Microeconomic models with latent variables : applications of measurement error models in empirical industrial organization and labor economics
Hu, Yingyao - 2015
This paper reviews recent developments in nonparametric identi.cation of mea- surement error models and their applications in applied microeconomics, in particular, in empirical industrial organization and labor economics. Measurement error models describe mappings from a latent distribution to...
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Heterogeneous effects of investment grants : evidence from a new measurement approach
Dettmann, Eva; Weyh, Antje; Titze, Mirko - 2018
characteristics and economic environment of the establishment on its employment development. Modifying the standard matching and …. Durch eine Modifzierung des Matching-und Differenz-in-Differenzen-Ansatzes entwickeln wir ein neues Verfahren zur Evaluation …
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Precision and stability of schools' value-added estimates : evidence for Italian primary schools
Agasisti, Tommaso; Minaya, Veronica - In: Applied economics letters 28 (2021) 7, pp. 541-545
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Does early educational tracking contribute to gender gaps in test achievement? : a cross-country assessment
Lorenz, Theresa; Schneebaum, Alyssa - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 244 (2024) 1/2, pp. 5-36
On average, boys score higher on math achievement tests and girls score higher in reading; these gaps increase between primary and secondary school. Using PISA, PIRLS, and TIMSS data, we investigate the role of early educational tracking (sorting students into different types of secondary...
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Money or grit? : determinants of mismatch by race and gender
Cooper, Russell W.; Liu, Huacong - 2016
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College choice allocation mechanisms : structural estimates and counterfactuals
Carvalho Júnior, José Raimundo de Araújo; Magnac, Thierry - 2014
We evaluate a simple allocation mechanism of students to majors at college entry that was commonly used in universities in Brazil in the 1990s and 2000s. Students first chose a single major and then took exams that select them in or out of the chosen major. The literature analyzing student...
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Matching mechanisms and matching quality : evidence from a top university in China
Wu, Binzhen; Zhong, Xiaohan - In: Games and economic behavior 84 (2014), pp. 196-215
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Structural estimation of a model of school choices : the Boston mechanism vs. its alternatives
Calsamiglia, Caterina; Fu, Chao; Güell, Maia - 2014
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