We model household choice of schools under the Boston mechanism (BM) and develop a
new method, applicable to a broad class of mechanisms, to fully solve the choice problem …

This paper studies how welfare outcomes in centralized school choice depend on the
assignment mechanism when participants are not fully informed. Using a survey of school …

Centralized school admission mechanisms are an attractive way of improving social welfare
and fairness in large educational systems. In this paper we report the design and …

Chile is known for universal school choice policies and a high level of economic
segregation. In part, segregation has been linked to selective school admission policies …

Many countries use centralized school choice procedures to assign pupils to schools. To
address excess demand for a particular school, ties are broken according to priority points …

This paper proposes an extension of the non-parametric long-term evaluation of efficiency,
the conditional panel data DEA model, which takes into account the panel structure of the …

Student access to education levels, tracks or majors is usually determined by their previous
performance, measured either by internal exams, designed and graded by teachers in …

This paper investigates whether the adoption of centralized school admission systems can
alter within-school socio-economic diversity relative to decentralized settings. We take …

This paper studies the limits of school choice policies in the presence of residential
segregation. Using data from the Boston Public Schools choice system, I show that white …

We study how market design choices exacerbate or mitigate pre-existing inequalities among
participants. We introduce outside options in a well-known school choice model, and show …