Showing posts with label school choice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label school choice. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

School choice, school quality, and student performance

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  School choice, which allows children to move away from neighborhood schools, doesn't by itself improve school quality, although it may...
Monday, November 18, 2024

What preferences are revealed by market designs? by Oğuzhan Çelebi (who is on the job market)

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Oğuzhan Çelebi is on the job market this year (listed on the job market websites of both MIT and Stanford where he's finishing a two y...
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Crowding in School Choice, By William Phan, Ryan Tierney, and Yu Zhou

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  Here's an innovative paper in the latest AER. The authors use North Carolina's Wake County Public School System as a motivating ex...
Thursday, July 4, 2024

YingHua He 何 英华 has died.

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  Yan Chen passes on the devastating news that  YingHua He 何 英华  passed away on Tuesday night, after struggling with kidney cancer. May his ...
Monday, July 1, 2024

Fairness, efficiency and strategy proofness in assigning indivisible objects: two new papers

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 Here are two new papers on the burgeoning literature of matching people to scarce indivisible resources. First, an experiment by Claudia Ce...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Centralized assignment mechanisms that don't include all the relevant choices, by Kapor, Karnani and Neilson in the JPE

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 One of the issues in organizing a centralized matching mechanism is to make the market thick, by including all or most of the relevant choi...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Interviews with school choice stakeholders

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 Here's a paper about school choice in New Orleans, organized around interviews with New Orleans "Experts and Administrators" ...
Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Market Design in El Mercurio--Chile's oldest newspaper

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Last Tuesday, in Chile I was interviewed by  Eduardo Olivares , the editor for Economics and Business of El Mercurio,  which published the i...
Thursday, September 7, 2023

Navigating NYC school choice: advice for families

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  Each year a new cohort of families has to navigate school choice in New York City.  The city offers lots of resources for gathering inform...
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Affirmative action in Brazilian universities: guest post by Inácio Bó

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 Recent legislation in Brazil addresses university admissions with affirmative action that targets multiple characteristics that individuals...
Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Incentives in matching markets: Counting and comparing manipulating agents by Bonkoungou and Nesterov

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 Here's a paper that caught my eye in the current issue of Theoretical Economics, Volume 18, Issue 3 (July 2023) Incentives in matching...
Monday, July 17, 2023

Affirmative action in India

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  Here's an interesting paper by Orhan  Aygün and Bertan Turhan . It comes with something of a backstory, which accounts for its quite d...
Thursday, June 15, 2023

School choice and related matching algorithms in France, by Vincent Iehlé and Julien Jacqmin

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Here's a recent paper that looks at the assignment of students to some of France's Grandes Ecoles, and draws some conclusions about ...
Tuesday, April 4, 2023

The Robert Rosenthal Memorial Lecture for 2023 at BU, by Parag Pathak

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 Parag Pathak gave this year's Robert Rosenthal Memorial Lecture at Boston University. The title of his talk is “Still Worth the Trip? ...
Monday, January 16, 2023

School choice, by Atila Abdulkadiroğlu and Tommy Andersson

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  Here's what looks to be a magisterial survey of school choice by two pioneers of the theory and practice of market design. School choi...
Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Managing inter-district school choice, by Yuchiro Kamada and Fuhito Kojima

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 Here's a paper that considers inter-district school choice, motivated by Tokyo day care centers.  I think  a similar problem arises in ...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

School choice consulting in New York City

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 It is a truth universally acknowledged that any stressful process in which affluent people participate must be in need of a consulting indu...