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Family ties : school assignment with siblings
Dur, Umut Mert; Morrill, Thayer; Phan, William - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 17 (2022) 1, pp. 89-120
assigned to grades within schools, many students have siblings who are applying as well, and school districts commonly … guarantee that siblings will attend the same school. This last condition disqualifies the standard approach of considering … grades independently as it may separate siblings. We argue that the central criterion in school choice - elimination of …
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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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Comparing school choice and college admission mechanisms by their immunity to strategic admissions
Bonkoungou, Somouaoga; Nesterov, Alexander - 2020
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The evolution of awareness and belief ambiguity during the process of high school track choice
Giustinelli, Pamela; Pavoni, Nicola - 2016 - This version: 31 March, 2016
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Daycare choice and ethnic diversity : evidence from a randomized survey
Batsaikhan, Mongolijn; Gørtz, Mette; Kennes, John; … - 2019
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Inefficient school choice in a long-run urban equilibrium
Kamecke, Ulrich - 2014
We model centralized school matching as a second stage of a simple Tiebout-model and show that the two most discussed mechanisms, the deferred acceptance and the Boston algorithm, both produce inefficient outcomes and that the Boston mechanism is more efficient than deferred acceptance. This...
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School choice with hybrid schedules
Afacan, Mustafa Oğuz; Dur, Umut Mert; Harris, William - In: Games 12 (2021) 2, pp. 1-11
During the pandemic, school districts have adopted hybrid schedules to continue the education of the students while maintaining social distance. In a hybrid schedule, students in the same classroom are usually divided into two groups and students only in the same group can physically attend...
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Discrimination and daycare choice : evidence from a randomized survey
Batsaikhan, Mongoljin; Gørtz, Mette; Kennes, John; … - 2021
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Minimal-access rights in school choice and the deferred acceptance mechanism
Klaus, Bettina; Klijn, Flip - 2021
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School choice under imperfect information
Ajayi, Kehinde; Sidibé, Modibo - 2020
As in many school districts around the world, prospective high-school students in Ghana are assigned to schools through a centralized system. Using administrative data on applications, we report that virtually all students adopt a weakly dominated strategy, and matching outcomes show that...
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