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Imperfect signals

Graetz, Georg - 2023

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Education and the welfare gains from employment protection

Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck - 2010

to schooling and aggregate welfare. -- Human capital ; job destruction ; matching frictions ; efficiency …

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A new approach to skills mismatch

Brun-Schammé, Amandine - 2021

Skills mismatch - the sub-optimal use of an individual's skills in their occupation - can be a source of dissatisfaction for workers and a brake for productivity growth. In our view, a difference in the level of skills within an occupation is not sufficient to infer that a skills mismatch...

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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

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...

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Improving matching under hard distributional constraints

Fragiadakis, Daniel; Troyan, Peter - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 12 (2017) 2, pp. 863-908

requirements at each Army branch in military cadet matching and diversity considerations in school choice, whereby school districts … the mechanism is run). We show that these current solutions ignore important information contained in the submitted … properties. We expect the use of our mechanisms to improve the performance of matching markets with distributional constraints in …

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On the Welfare Effects of Affirmative Actions in School Choice

Liu, Yun - 2018

, and the intrinsic difficulty of embedding diversity goals into stable matching mechanisms. Under some regularity …

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Measuring Manipulability of Matching Mechanisms

Imamura, Kenzo; Tomoeda, Kentaro - 2022

Pathak and Sönmez (2013) provided support for many real-world school choice reforms by showing that the post-reform mechanisms are often “less manipulable” than the pre-reform mechanisms according to their criterion of manipulability. In many realistic preference domains including...

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A signaling model of university selection

Anić, Ivan; Božin, Vladimir; Uroševic, Branko - 2016

We propose a signaling model of student enrollment dynamics based on probabilities of completion of studies, under …

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Student Selection and Incentives

Eisenkopf, Gerald - 2007

The paper discusses the impact of ability grouping in secondary education on student incentives. Education provides a signal on unobservable ability for employers and improves productivity after education. Selection sets better incentives in primary education and allows for improved peer group...

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Distorted Quality Signals in School Markets

Cuesta, José Ignacio - 2020

Information plays a key role in markets with consumer choice. In education, data on schools is often gathered through … distortions in school quality information. These distorted quality signals affect parents' school choice and induce misallocation …

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