Many cities with school choice programs employ algorithms to determine which applicants get seats in oversubscribed …

We study self-selection in centralized school choice, a strategy that takes place when students submit preferences … schools are zero, she may not rank them even when the mechanism is strategyproof. Using data from the Mexico City high school … mistake. These findings question the effectiveness of equal access provided by school choice, and we argue it can be improved …

We generalize the school choice problem by defining a notion of allowable priority violations. In this setting, a weak …

externalities). Indeed, although weak externalities have no effects on stability, there are school choice contexts in which no …In classical school choice contexts there exists a centralized assignment procedure that is stable and strategy …-proof: the Gale-Shapley student-optimal stable mechanism. We show that this property is not satisfied when externalities are …

The literature on school choice assumes that families can submit a preference list over all the schools they want to be … school in the constrained list explains most manipulations. Competitiveness across schools plays an important role … constraint reduces significantly the proportion of subjects playing a dominated strategy. -- School Choice ; Matching …

The literature on school choice assumes that families can submit a preference list over all the schools they want to be … school in the constrained list explains most manipulations. Competitiveness across schools plays an important role …

Interdistrict school choice programs-where a student can be assigned to a school outside of her district-are widespread … school choice and present two mechanisms that produce stable or efficient assignments. We consider three categories of policy … school choice, we provide a new avenue of research in market design …

We revisit the school choice problem with consent proposed by Kesten (2010), which seeks to improve the efficiency of … algorithm for school choice problems with weak priorities to simplify the stable improvement cycles algorithm proposed by Erdil …