Monday, January 16, 2023

School choice, by Atila Abdulkadiroğlu and Tommy Andersson

 Here's what looks to be a magisterial survey of school choice by two pioneers of the theory and practice of market design.

School choice by Atila Abdulkadiroğlu and Tommy Andersson, Handbook of the Economics of Education, Available online 3 January 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.hesedu.2022.11.001 

Abstract: School districts in the United States and around the world are increasingly moving away from traditional neighborhood school assignment, in which pupils attend closest schools to their homes. Instead, they allow families to choose from schools within district boundaries. This creates a market with parental demand over publicly-supplied school seats. More frequently than ever, this market for school seats is cleared via market design solutions grounded in recent advances in matching and mechanism design theory. The literature on school choice is reviewed with emphasis placed on the trade-offs among policy objectives and best practices in the design of admissions processes. It is concluded with a brief discussion about how data generated by assignment algorithms can be used to answer contemporary empirical questions about school effectiveness and policy interventions.

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