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 …

Geographic school admissions criteria bind residential and school choices for some parents, and could create … externalities in equilibrium for non-parents through displacement or higher rent. Through a dynamic structural model, we show that … the policy decision of geographic versus non-geographic school admissions criteria has important implications for …

We examine the differences in an index of standardized test performance of urban private/public school seniors by race … exogenous variables to control for individual traits, family background, etc., we treat both student performance and school … choice as jointly endogenous in the context of a simultaneous equations model with a latent variable: school choice. We find …

We consider school choice problems (Abdulkadiroglu and Sönmez, 2003) where students are assigned to public schools … considers a rank-priority pair and matches an available student to an unfilled school if the student and the school rank and …

We study the trade-off between stability and students' welfare in school choice problems. We call a matching weakly …

This paper formulates a dynamic altruistic model of parental choice of school quality and intergenerational social … mobility. It shows that when there are many school qualities, the earnings of children as a function of parental schooling …

In the school choice market, where scarce public school seats are assigned to students, a key operational issue is how … (PLDA) mechanisms. Our mechanisms generalize the commonly used Deferred Acceptance (DA) school choice mechanism to a two …-round setting and retain its desirable incentive and efficiency properties. School choice systems typically run DA with a lottery …