abilities (e.g., their exam scores). The matching outcome thus may be imperfect in terms of ex-ante fairness, which suggests … matching students with higher ability to better colleges. To achieve ex-ante fairness, we consider constraining student choice … unfair matching is also increased, resulting in a riskier matching outcome. Learning the game or providing students with …

We model centralized school matching as a second stage of a simple Tiebout-model and show that the two most discussed …