We characterize a parametric family of application-rejection school choice mechanisms, including the Boston and …

acceptance algorithm is employed after indifferences in school priorities are resolved by either random procedure. The main …

school choice mechanisms, namely deferred and immediate acceptance mechanisms. Some seats are allocated based on merit (e … equilibrium for the immediate acceptance mechanism. This finds support in the experiment. Moreover, the lottery quota leads to … more diverse school populations in the experiments, as predicted. Comparing the two mechanisms, students with the lowest …

school choice mechanisms, namely deferred and immediate acceptance mechanisms. Some seats are allocated based on merit (e … equilibrium for the immediate acceptance mechanism. This finds support in the experiment. Moreover, the lottery quota leads to … more diverse school populations in the experiments, as predicted. Comparing the two mechanisms, students with the lowest …

School choice may allow schools to impede access to students perceived as costlier to educate. To test this, we sent … emails from fictitious parents to 6,452 charter schools and traditional public schools subject to school choice in 29 states … and Washington, D.C. The fictitious parent asked whether any student is eligible to apply to the school and how to apply …

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 …