As in many school districts around the world, prospective high-school students in Ghana are assigned to schools through … students engage in a costly search process to acquire information over school characteristics. The key insight of the model is … selective school, welfare would increase by 72%. We propose a mechanism design reform, and show that collecting preferences over …

We study the allocation of indivisible objects (e.g. school seats) to agents by lotteries. Agents have preferences over …

During the pandemic, school districts have adopted hybrid schedules to continue the education of the students while … only in the same group can physically attend class together two days a week. School districts do not take preferences of … the students/parents over the days they would like to come to school into account during this procedure. In this paper, we …

This paper studies an information intervention designed and implemented in the context of a school assignment mechanism … graduate on time from high school at a higher rate. We also quantify the effect of a counterfactual and yet feasible …