school closure. Schools therefore have strong incentive to have as many students as possible. This in turn might lead them to … schools in the school choice setting. Speci cally, we study whether schools can increase their enrollment levels through fi …

We introduce the notion of sticky-stability in order to accommodate appeal costs in real-life school-choice systems … their preferred schools. In order to incorporate this into the school-choice setting, we consider the vector of parameters …

Public school choice programs give households a free choice of public school and provide schools incentives to compete … schools, since households' perceptions of school quality depend not only on the efforts of school personnel but also on the … analyzing an economic model of public school choice. To capture the pro-choice argument, the model assumes that a neighborhood …

We model centralized school matching as a second stage of a simple Tiebout-model and show that the two most discussed … disadvantaged if the school priorities are based on ex ante known (social) differences of the applicants …

We study a new variant of the school choice problem in which capacities can be altered by distributing additional seats …

When applying to schools, students often submit applications to distinct school systems that operate independently … an experiment to compare the performance of this mechanism under parallel markets (DecDA2) to the classic Deferred … Acceptance mechanism with both divided (DecDA) and unified markets (DA). Consistent with the theory, we find that both stability …

Education reforms must go furtherIncentivising Excellence considers the conditions that need to prevail for school … regarding the effects of school choice – encompassing cross-national studies, in-depth discussions of national choice programmes … efforts to introduce school choice, most attempts have been half-hearted, making it unsurprising that many of the reforms have …

We introduce a generalization of the school choice problem motivated by the following observations: students are … 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 …