Showing posts with label school choice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label school choice. Show all posts
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...
Sunday, October 2, 2022

Return to previous school assignment policies (in some respects) under New York City's new mayor

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 In NYC, the pendulum is still swinging between inclusive admissions as measured by demographics and determined by lottery, and meritocratic...
Friday, September 23, 2022

Choosing between public and private schools: vouchers in Arizona

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There's a fight over public versus private school funding in Arizona. Here's the background: Arizona OKs Biggest US School Voucher P...
Friday, August 5, 2022

Busing for schools in Boston and NYC, by Angrist, Gray-Lobe, Idoux & Pathak

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 One of the spinoffs of the design of school choice systems in Boston, NYC and elsewhere is that it has opened up the empirical study of sch...
Monday, July 25, 2022

Efficient school choice when schools are not players: Phil Reny in the AER

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  In some school choice systems, such as in New York City, the schools (represented e.g. by the school principals) as well as the students a...
Sunday, July 24, 2022

School choice in Amsterdam: a counterfactual analysis

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  Forthcoming in the JPE ( It looks like the refereeing process worked its magic on this paper, whose first version was distributed in 2015....
Saturday, June 25, 2022

San Francisco's Lowell High School admissions will return to merit-based system

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 The SF Chronicle has the latest twist in this involved story over San Francisco's elite Lowell High School. Lowell High School admissio...
Friday, June 24, 2022

New York City school choice: increased use of lotteries in the news

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The recent emphasis on lotteries in NYC school choice is discussed in the NY Times: N.Y.C. Tried to Fix High School Admissions. Some Parents...
Thursday, June 23, 2022

School Choice in Chile

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 Here's a recent report on the implementation of centralized school choice in Chile. School Choice in Chile  by Jos é  Correa, Natalie E...
Friday, June 10, 2022

Congratulations to Arthur Lee, on receiving the Anna Laura Myers Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis

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Arthur Lee received the Economics Department's Anna Laura Myers Prize for Outstanding Honors Thesis yesterday, for his thesis on school ...
Saturday, May 21, 2022

Iowa State University celebrates Bertan Turhan

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 The Iowa State University News Service has an article about the market design work of Bertan Turhan . New model could improve matches betw...