Showing posts with label school choice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label school choice. Show all posts
Monday, July 20, 2026

Exam schools, gifted programs, and "giftedness"

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 Are some children more gifted than others, and can they be identified in ways that aren't irreparably confounded with socioeconomic sta...
Thursday, November 6, 2025

School choice and performance gaps in England: a report by Burgess, Cantillon, Greaves and Cavallo

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 Estelle Cantillon writes to tell me about her new report with Simon Burgess , Ellen Greaves , and  Mariagrazia Cavallo   on changing the...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

The role of 'public entrepreneurs' in city government (and a shoutout to Jeremy Lack)

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With a focus on New York City's mayoral election  next week,  this Bloomberg.com column considers things that mayors can do, including  ...
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...